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2017 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 326K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1361st 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 Richmond 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 | March 14, 2017 01:00 | March 15, 2017 21:45 | 1d 20h | 7,694 | 65K |
| 2 | October 16, 2017 13:00 | October 17, 2017 01:45 | 12h 45m | 5,799 | 8,749 |
| 3 | July 5, 2017 17:30 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 1d 5h | 4,626 | 15K |
| 4 | July 18, 2017 13:15 | July 19, 2017 01:30 | 12h 15m | 4,267 | 8,643 |
| 5 | March 1, 2017 15:00 | March 2, 2017 10:00 | 19h | 4,235 | 13K |
| 6 | June 19, 2017 10:45 | June 20, 2017 23:45 | 1d 13h | 4,206 | 17K |
| 7 | July 14, 2017 23:45 | July 15, 2017 03:30 | 3h 45m | 4,164 | 4,285 |
| 8 | July 16, 2017 07:00 | July 16, 2017 18:15 | 11h 15m | 3,573 | 2,819 |
| 9 | January 26, 2017 17:45 | January 27, 2017 02:45 | 9h | 3,302 | 5,890 |
| 10 | August 4, 2017 17:45 | August 5, 2017 16:00 | 22h 15m | 3,280 | 4,730 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 128 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 112,565 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. Richmond city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-city