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2017 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 11.6 hours, a total of 151K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 472nd 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 Powhatan 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 | July 24, 2017 02:15 | July 24, 2017 20:00 | 17h 45m | 5,017 | 16K |
| 2 | December 9, 2017 00:30 | December 11, 2017 21:15 | 2d 20h | 4,923 | 77K |
| 3 | January 26, 2017 17:45 | January 27, 2017 07:30 | 13h 45m | 4,553 | 3,826 |
| 4 | January 9, 2017 09:00 | January 10, 2017 05:30 | 20h 30m | 3,540 | 3,904 |
| 5 | November 6, 2017 07:30 | November 6, 2017 11:15 | 3h 45m | 3,135 | 1,087 |
| 6 | August 7, 2017 12:15 | August 7, 2017 20:45 | 8h 30m | 2,657 | 3,712 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 08:45 | June 16, 2017 14:00 | 5h 15m | 2,472 | 3,645 |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 15:30 | March 2, 2017 01:45 | 10h 15m | 2,433 | 2,253 |
| 9 | July 18, 2017 01:45 | July 18, 2017 02:45 | 1h | 1,594 | 1,594 |
| 10 | October 29, 2017 21:30 | October 30, 2017 01:15 | 3h 45m | 1,492 | 1,760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 47 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 Powhatan 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county