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2017 Richmond County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Richmond County, VA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1089th 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 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 | April 6, 2017 17:45 | April 7, 2017 07:30 | 13h 45m | 929 | 8,479 |
| 2 | April 25, 2017 11:00 | April 25, 2017 14:45 | 3h 45m | 775 | 644 |
| 3 | January 9, 2017 09:15 | January 9, 2017 14:30 | 5h 15m | 468 | 1,952 |
| 4 | August 19, 2017 00:00 | August 19, 2017 05:45 | 5h 45m | 424 | 776 |
| 5 | October 30, 2017 00:00 | October 30, 2017 01:45 | 1h 45m | 399 | 387 |
| 6 | July 13, 2017 19:30 | July 13, 2017 20:45 | 1h 15m | 262 | 292 |
| 7 | August 9, 2017 11:15 | August 9, 2017 15:00 | 3h 45m | 245 | 585 |
| 8 | November 2, 2017 19:15 | November 2, 2017 20:45 | 1h 30m | 244 | 366 |
| 9 | April 11, 2017 16:45 | April 11, 2017 17:45 | 1h | 153 | 153 |
| 10 | August 2, 2017 14:15 | August 2, 2017 14:30 | 15m | 148 | 37 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,030 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 County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/virginia/richmond-county