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2016 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 762K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 397th 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 Newport News city, 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 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 13, 2016 00:15 | 4d 1h | 23,363 | 548K |
| 2 | September 3, 2016 00:45 | September 4, 2016 16:45 | 1d 16h | 12,516 | 42K |
| 3 | March 21, 2016 01:15 | March 21, 2016 06:00 | 4h 45m | 5,353 | 6,109 |
| 4 | August 15, 2016 01:15 | August 15, 2016 21:00 | 19h 45m | 4,484 | 4,727 |
| 5 | August 9, 2016 11:15 | August 10, 2016 22:45 | 1d 11h | 3,790 | 6,881 |
| 6 | January 22, 2016 13:45 | January 24, 2016 02:15 | 1d 12h | 3,306 | 9,312 |
| 7 | April 30, 2016 11:45 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 2d 6h | 2,954 | 4,090 |
| 8 | September 9, 2016 21:45 | September 10, 2016 16:45 | 19h | 2,913 | 5,612 |
| 9 | August 14, 2016 01:30 | August 14, 2016 09:30 | 8h | 2,761 | 8,600 |
| 10 | September 29, 2016 22:30 | October 1, 2016 09:45 | 1d 11h | 2,315 | 6,912 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 90 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Newport News city 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News city, 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/newport-news-city