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2018 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 124 Virginia counties and 461st 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 Newport News 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 19, 2018 15:15 | 7d 16h | 29,961 | 800K |
| 2 | July 13, 2018 11:00 | July 14, 2018 04:00 | 17h | 6,558 | 11K |
| 3 | August 7, 2018 12:45 | August 8, 2018 04:00 | 15h 15m | 6,496 | 15K |
| 4 | December 9, 2018 20:15 | December 10, 2018 11:15 | 15h | 6,471 | 13K |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 01:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 23h | 2,974 | 21K |
| 6 | August 20, 2018 06:15 | August 20, 2018 17:45 | 11h 30m | 2,911 | 6,953 |
| 7 | January 25, 2018 17:30 | January 25, 2018 20:00 | 2h 30m | 2,743 | 1,635 |
| 8 | August 26, 2018 14:00 | August 26, 2018 15:45 | 1h 45m | 2,384 | 1,430 |
| 9 | January 14, 2018 15:00 | January 16, 2018 03:30 | 1d 12h | 2,333 | 13K |
| 10 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 19, 2018 14:45 | 13d 11h | 1,991 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 104 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Newport News 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News 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/newport-news-city