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2016 Petersburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Petersburg city, VA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 705th 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 Petersburg 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 | September 30, 2016 04:30 | September 30, 2016 07:00 | 2h 30m | 3,557 | 2,570 |
| 2 | May 14, 2016 20:45 | May 15, 2016 22:30 | 1d 1h | 2,900 | 13K |
| 3 | January 5, 2016 18:00 | January 5, 2016 23:30 | 5h 30m | 2,235 | 4,119 |
| 4 | November 2, 2016 08:00 | November 2, 2016 14:15 | 6h 15m | 1,315 | 2,595 |
| 5 | October 9, 2016 09:30 | October 11, 2016 00:15 | 1d 14h | 1,076 | 3,890 |
| 6 | December 2, 2016 13:45 | December 2, 2016 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,046 | 577 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 13:15 | February 16, 2016 15:30 | 2h 15m | 1,022 | 1,451 |
| 8 | December 8, 2016 19:15 | December 8, 2016 22:45 | 3h 30m | 944 | 815 |
| 9 | December 16, 2016 01:15 | December 16, 2016 10:30 | 9h 15m | 944 | 1,058 |
| 10 | August 12, 2016 04:30 | August 12, 2016 09:30 | 5h | 832 | 3,199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 38 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Petersburg 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 ÷ 14,894 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. Petersburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Petersburg 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/petersburg-city