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2018 Chesapeake city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Chesapeake city, VA went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 748K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 103rd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 757th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesapeake city, 2018
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 11, 2018 23:15 | October 16, 2018 09:00 | 4d 9h | 19,883 | 419K |
| 2 | January 4, 2018 04:45 | January 6, 2018 06:30 | 2d 1h | 11,106 | 56K |
| 3 | October 4, 2018 05:30 | October 4, 2018 09:00 | 3h 30m | 7,267 | 9,958 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 09:30 | March 4, 2018 12:15 | 2d 2h | 6,984 | 56K |
| 5 | February 27, 2018 15:15 | February 27, 2018 18:45 | 3h 30m | 5,650 | 4,590 |
| 6 | January 6, 2018 10:45 | January 9, 2018 05:15 | 2d 18h | 5,334 | 13K |
| 7 | February 19, 2018 13:45 | February 19, 2018 17:15 | 3h 30m | 5,323 | 3,992 |
| 8 | March 12, 2018 20:15 | March 15, 2018 05:00 | 2d 8h | 5,050 | 13K |
| 9 | August 30, 2018 17:00 | August 31, 2018 17:15 | 1d | 4,174 | 9,098 |
| 10 | August 11, 2018 21:00 | August 13, 2018 10:15 | 1d 13h | 3,724 | 5,736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 122 reached 100+ customers, 31 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Chesapeake city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 104,567 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. Chesapeake city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesapeake city, VA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/chesapeake-city