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2016 Virginia Beach city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Virginia Beach city, VA went without power for an average of 20.1 hours, a total of 3.8M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 145th 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 Virginia Beach 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 14, 2016 04:45 | 5d 6h | 77,449 | 3.1M |
| 2 | September 3, 2016 04:15 | September 6, 2016 01:00 | 2d 20h | 33,509 | 263K |
| 3 | February 1, 2016 15:00 | February 4, 2016 10:00 | 2d 19h | 14,495 | 25K |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 07:30 | April 3, 2016 23:45 | 16h 15m | 10,142 | 14K |
| 5 | July 13, 2016 13:45 | July 14, 2016 01:30 | 11h 45m | 9,262 | 13K |
| 6 | May 25, 2016 09:45 | May 26, 2016 02:00 | 16h 15m | 9,258 | 9,418 |
| 7 | July 14, 2016 02:45 | July 17, 2016 11:15 | 3d 8h | 8,575 | 54K |
| 8 | July 12, 2016 11:30 | July 13, 2016 03:45 | 16h 15m | 7,891 | 8,076 |
| 9 | July 31, 2016 14:00 | August 2, 2016 05:15 | 1d 15h | 7,561 | 40K |
| 10 | September 9, 2016 21:00 | September 11, 2016 06:00 | 1d 9h | 7,443 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 196 reached 100+ customers, 51 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Virginia Beach 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 ÷ 190,947 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. Virginia Beach city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Virginia Beach 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/virginia-beach-city