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2017 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 524K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1229th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesterfield County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 14, 2017 02:15 | March 15, 2017 10:15 | 1d 8h | 13,205 | 80K |
| 2 | May 27, 2017 05:30 | May 29, 2017 02:15 | 1d 20h | 8,202 | 25K |
| 3 | October 9, 2017 22:00 | October 10, 2017 04:30 | 6h 30m | 6,560 | 7,038 |
| 4 | July 23, 2017 04:45 | July 24, 2017 18:00 | 1d 13h | 6,201 | 10K |
| 5 | May 25, 2017 02:00 | May 26, 2017 01:15 | 23h 15m | 5,826 | 14K |
| 6 | August 15, 2017 09:30 | August 17, 2017 06:30 | 1d 21h | 5,534 | 12K |
| 7 | August 18, 2017 19:15 | August 20, 2017 10:30 | 1d 15h | 5,211 | 24K |
| 8 | June 19, 2017 12:30 | June 21, 2017 09:30 | 1d 21h | 4,964 | 22K |
| 9 | August 4, 2017 19:30 | August 5, 2017 10:15 | 14h 45m | 4,366 | 4,563 |
| 10 | October 11, 2017 11:15 | October 12, 2017 03:00 | 15h 45m | 4,041 | 5,846 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 165 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Chesterfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.94 | 2.5 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 155,017 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. Chesterfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesterfield County, VA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/virginia/chesterfield-county