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2017 Petersburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Petersburg city, VA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1124th 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 Petersburg 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 | May 24, 2017 23:15 | May 25, 2017 07:45 | 8h 30m | 2,242 | 5,719 |
| 2 | August 29, 2017 07:15 | August 29, 2017 10:30 | 3h 15m | 2,236 | 3,018 |
| 3 | May 5, 2017 11:30 | May 5, 2017 22:15 | 10h 45m | 1,493 | 2,647 |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 16:15 | March 1, 2017 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,279 | 2,098 |
| 5 | August 5, 2017 06:00 | August 5, 2017 21:30 | 15h 30m | 1,167 | 6,434 |
| 6 | August 18, 2017 11:15 | August 18, 2017 14:45 | 3h 30m | 1,161 | 1,881 |
| 7 | December 25, 2017 21:00 | December 26, 2017 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,015 | 1,919 |
| 8 | January 7, 2017 08:00 | January 7, 2017 08:45 | 45m | 1,000 | 750 |
| 9 | May 26, 2017 01:00 | May 26, 2017 04:15 | 3h 15m | 832 | 1,002 |
| 10 | February 14, 2017 08:15 | February 14, 2017 12:45 | 4h 30m | 715 | 1,346 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 30 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Petersburg 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 ÷ 14,894 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. Petersburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Petersburg 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/petersburg-city