County annual report · FIPS 51760
2016 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 18.0 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 166th 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 Richmond 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 | June 17, 2016 00:45 | June 20, 2016 22:45 | 3d 22h | 32,202 | 1.1M |
| 2 | July 19, 2016 19:00 | July 26, 2016 11:30 | 6d 16h | 27,403 | 426K |
| 3 | July 26, 2016 16:15 | July 30, 2016 09:45 | 3d 17h | 15,460 | 153K |
| 4 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 24, 2016 23:00 | 1d 12h | 6,531 | 9,443 |
| 5 | April 27, 2016 07:15 | April 27, 2016 09:00 | 1h 45m | 5,746 | 3,643 |
| 6 | October 8, 2016 22:45 | October 12, 2016 10:00 | 3d 11h | 5,376 | 83K |
| 7 | August 6, 2016 04:45 | August 6, 2016 06:00 | 1h 15m | 4,852 | 4,179 |
| 8 | August 6, 2016 07:15 | August 6, 2016 10:00 | 2h 45m | 4,809 | 12K |
| 9 | September 19, 2016 16:00 | September 20, 2016 22:15 | 1d 6h | 4,714 | 2,983 |
| 10 | May 9, 2016 18:15 | May 10, 2016 07:30 | 13h 15m | 3,662 | 5,356 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 166 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 112,565 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. Richmond city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-city