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2017 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 532nd 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 Essex 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 | June 13, 2017 20:00 | June 14, 2017 03:00 | 7h | 6,819 | 7,331 |
| 2 | March 22, 2017 11:00 | March 23, 2017 05:45 | 18h 45m | 4,139 | 2,154 |
| 3 | August 18, 2017 23:45 | August 19, 2017 08:30 | 8h 45m | 1,551 | 4,420 |
| 4 | June 19, 2017 20:45 | June 20, 2017 05:15 | 8h 30m | 1,385 | 2,498 |
| 5 | March 14, 2017 08:30 | March 14, 2017 19:30 | 11h | 1,070 | 6,168 |
| 6 | January 26, 2017 18:30 | January 26, 2017 23:30 | 5h | 964 | 896 |
| 7 | April 6, 2017 17:45 | April 6, 2017 21:15 | 3h 30m | 794 | 1,219 |
| 8 | June 27, 2017 17:30 | June 27, 2017 17:45 | 15m | 768 | 192 |
| 9 | March 8, 2017 18:30 | March 8, 2017 20:30 | 2h | 760 | 1,520 |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 12:15 | May 5, 2017 18:30 | 6h 15m | 760 | 1,743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 37 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.94 | 2.0 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county