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2018 Mathews County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mathews County, VA went without power for an average of 142.5 hours, a total of 461K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 35th 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 Mathews 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 12, 2018 00:30 | October 17, 2018 04:45 | 5d 4h | 6,636 | 289K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 09:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 16h | 4,243 | 114K |
| 3 | June 4, 2018 02:45 | June 4, 2018 03:45 | 1h | 2,866 | 2,866 |
| 4 | September 8, 2018 19:00 | September 9, 2018 09:45 | 14h 45m | 1,972 | 11K |
| 5 | September 14, 2018 05:45 | September 14, 2018 14:00 | 8h 15m | 1,902 | 3,346 |
| 6 | January 4, 2018 09:45 | January 4, 2018 21:45 | 12h | 1,354 | 2,452 |
| 7 | October 26, 2018 18:15 | October 26, 2018 22:30 | 4h 15m | 1,350 | 673 |
| 8 | September 11, 2018 22:45 | September 11, 2018 23:30 | 45m | 1,349 | 675 |
| 9 | August 7, 2018 10:15 | August 7, 2018 16:30 | 6h 15m | 1,320 | 6,752 |
| 10 | July 22, 2018 19:30 | July 23, 2018 23:30 | 1d 4h | 1,268 | 3,890 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 30 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Mathews 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,233 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. Mathews County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mathews 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/mathews-county