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2017 Dinwiddie County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dinwiddie County, VA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 859th 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 Dinwiddie 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 | February 10, 2017 10:45 | February 10, 2017 19:00 | 8h 15m | 5,070 | 12K |
| 2 | September 22, 2017 19:30 | September 22, 2017 20:45 | 1h 15m | 2,218 | 1,693 |
| 3 | August 23, 2017 14:45 | August 24, 2017 02:45 | 12h | 1,833 | 7,459 |
| 4 | May 5, 2017 11:00 | May 6, 2017 02:00 | 15h | 1,725 | 3,401 |
| 5 | March 1, 2017 13:15 | March 1, 2017 23:30 | 10h 15m | 1,527 | 2,149 |
| 6 | June 30, 2017 08:00 | June 30, 2017 16:15 | 8h 15m | 1,514 | 1,282 |
| 7 | March 20, 2017 20:15 | March 20, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 1,502 | 376 |
| 8 | July 3, 2017 23:45 | July 4, 2017 06:45 | 7h | 1,426 | 1,097 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 05:30 | May 1, 2017 07:15 | 1h 45m | 1,409 | 2,466 |
| 10 | August 19, 2017 22:00 | August 19, 2017 22:15 | 15m | 1,280 | 320 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Dinwiddie 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 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 12,472 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. Dinwiddie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dinwiddie 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/dinwiddie-county