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2016 Mathews County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mathews County, VA went without power for an average of 24.6 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 121st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mathews County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 24, 2016 20:30 | February 26, 2016 04:45 | 1d 8h | 5,384 | 22K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 23:45 | October 11, 2016 15:00 | 2d 15h | 3,075 | 20K |
| 3 | October 15, 2016 18:30 | October 15, 2016 19:45 | 1h 15m | 3,073 | 1,308 |
| 4 | July 16, 2016 07:30 | July 16, 2016 09:15 | 1h 45m | 2,536 | 2,369 |
| 5 | August 28, 2016 00:00 | August 28, 2016 03:45 | 3h 45m | 2,534 | 2,655 |
| 6 | April 4, 2016 23:45 | April 5, 2016 13:00 | 13h 15m | 2,476 | 6,824 |
| 7 | September 20, 2016 00:00 | September 20, 2016 00:30 | 30m | 2,209 | 1,105 |
| 8 | January 23, 2016 22:15 | January 24, 2016 03:15 | 5h | 2,197 | 773 |
| 9 | April 3, 2016 05:45 | April 3, 2016 20:15 | 14h 30m | 1,392 | 6,110 |
| 10 | January 23, 2016 05:00 | January 23, 2016 21:00 | 16h | 1,354 | 1,775 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Mathews County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Virginia's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,233 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Mathews County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mathews County, VA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/mathews-county