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2018 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 124 Virginia counties and 381st 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 Chesterfield County, 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 18:15 | October 19, 2018 10:00 | 7d 15h | 51,921 | 1.3M |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 12:00 | May 21, 2018 11:00 | 6d 23h | 19,818 | 162K |
| 3 | March 19, 2018 16:45 | March 20, 2018 23:30 | 1d 6h | 14,083 | 19K |
| 4 | March 1, 2018 20:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 4d 4h | 13,730 | 210K |
| 5 | April 19, 2018 08:30 | April 21, 2018 01:30 | 1d 17h | 9,796 | 8,929 |
| 6 | December 9, 2018 17:45 | December 12, 2018 00:30 | 2d 6h | 8,508 | 49K |
| 7 | October 25, 2018 13:30 | October 26, 2018 16:15 | 1d 2h | 7,124 | 4,120 |
| 8 | August 28, 2018 13:30 | September 3, 2018 05:45 | 5d 16h | 6,769 | 64K |
| 9 | July 9, 2018 12:45 | July 12, 2018 19:30 | 3d 6h | 4,776 | 7,822 |
| 10 | December 21, 2018 13:00 | December 22, 2018 22:00 | 1d 9h | 4,664 | 4,071 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 156 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Chesterfield County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 40.6 hrs | 4.32 | 5.1 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 155,017 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. Chesterfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesterfield County, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/chesterfield-county