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2016 Richmond County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Richmond County, VA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 543rd 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 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 | August 18, 2016 01:30 | August 18, 2016 06:30 | 5h | 1,930 | 4,920 |
| 2 | February 25, 2016 00:00 | February 25, 2016 17:30 | 17h 30m | 729 | 3,778 |
| 3 | July 12, 2016 03:45 | July 12, 2016 05:45 | 2h | 653 | 945 |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 04:15 | April 3, 2016 14:15 | 10h | 597 | 2,500 |
| 5 | August 18, 2016 14:30 | August 18, 2016 16:15 | 1h 45m | 551 | 277 |
| 6 | February 3, 2016 21:45 | February 4, 2016 01:00 | 3h 15m | 531 | 1,077 |
| 7 | December 28, 2016 15:00 | December 28, 2016 18:15 | 3h 15m | 520 | 709 |
| 8 | April 15, 2016 22:15 | April 16, 2016 00:15 | 2h | 393 | 596 |
| 9 | May 3, 2016 19:15 | May 4, 2016 01:15 | 6h | 391 | 681 |
| 10 | July 28, 2016 22:30 | July 29, 2016 20:30 | 22h | 345 | 1,052 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 19 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richmond 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,030 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 County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county