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2018 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 41.2 hours, a total of 215K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 140th 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 Essex 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 23:15 | October 16, 2018 14:15 | 4d 15h | 6,717 | 127K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 07:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 18h | 3,532 | 39K |
| 3 | May 15, 2018 00:00 | May 17, 2018 07:15 | 2d 7h | 3,318 | 27K |
| 4 | June 2, 2018 23:45 | June 3, 2018 20:30 | 20h 45m | 847 | 3,405 |
| 5 | February 24, 2018 15:45 | February 24, 2018 16:30 | 45m | 720 | 540 |
| 6 | June 9, 2018 22:15 | June 10, 2018 20:15 | 22h | 522 | 1,664 |
| 7 | March 22, 2018 20:00 | March 23, 2018 00:00 | 4h | 488 | 1,284 |
| 8 | January 23, 2018 16:30 | January 23, 2018 21:00 | 4h 30m | 463 | 139 |
| 9 | March 21, 2018 16:30 | March 21, 2018 23:00 | 6h 30m | 417 | 1,044 |
| 10 | July 10, 2018 20:45 | July 11, 2018 04:30 | 7h 45m | 398 | 1,071 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2018 | 21.3 hrs | 2.99 | 2.8 hrs | 1.58 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county