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2016 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 12.9 hours, a total of 167K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 262nd 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 Powhatan 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 | July 29, 2016 01:15 | July 29, 2016 18:00 | 16h 45m | 6,922 | 15K |
| 2 | August 2, 2016 13:00 | August 2, 2016 13:30 | 30m | 6,342 | 3,171 |
| 3 | July 31, 2016 23:45 | August 1, 2016 16:45 | 17h | 6,284 | 7,797 |
| 4 | May 4, 2016 10:15 | May 4, 2016 15:15 | 5h | 4,970 | 1,988 |
| 5 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 00:15 | 2d 1h | 3,714 | 29K |
| 6 | July 12, 2016 15:00 | July 12, 2016 17:45 | 2h 45m | 3,250 | 2,982 |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 22:30 | February 25, 2016 22:45 | 1d | 2,475 | 3,603 |
| 8 | September 19, 2016 21:00 | September 20, 2016 03:15 | 6h 15m | 2,445 | 1,243 |
| 9 | August 15, 2016 21:30 | August 16, 2016 13:30 | 16h | 2,440 | 3,102 |
| 10 | February 26, 2016 04:45 | February 26, 2016 05:00 | 15m | 2,436 | 609 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 68 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Powhatan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.9 hrs | 2.02 |
| 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/powhatan-county