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2017 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 111th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1705th 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 Newport News city, 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 | October 14, 2017 00:45 | October 14, 2017 16:00 | 15h 15m | 5,440 | 12K |
| 2 | May 31, 2017 14:15 | June 1, 2017 20:30 | 1d 6h | 3,273 | 15K |
| 3 | August 15, 2017 19:45 | August 16, 2017 21:45 | 1d 2h | 3,051 | 5,212 |
| 4 | June 22, 2017 22:15 | June 23, 2017 16:00 | 17h 45m | 2,771 | 4,207 |
| 5 | January 1, 2017 11:15 | January 2, 2017 03:30 | 16h 15m | 2,657 | 6,017 |
| 6 | January 26, 2017 21:30 | January 27, 2017 01:30 | 4h | 1,949 | 2,008 |
| 7 | January 27, 2017 06:00 | January 27, 2017 07:30 | 1h 30m | 1,642 | 412 |
| 8 | September 23, 2017 01:00 | September 23, 2017 04:45 | 3h 45m | 1,429 | 1,715 |
| 9 | June 26, 2017 13:15 | June 27, 2017 02:45 | 13h 30m | 1,391 | 2,299 |
| 10 | October 7, 2017 06:30 | October 7, 2017 21:30 | 15h | 1,383 | 3,690 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 83 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Newport News city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/virginia/newport-news-city