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2018 Petersburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Petersburg city, VA went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 169K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 485th 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 Petersburg 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 21:00 | October 15, 2018 04:45 | 3d 7h | 4,741 | 84K |
| 2 | June 22, 2018 22:45 | June 23, 2018 21:00 | 22h 15m | 3,228 | 7,511 |
| 3 | January 4, 2018 21:15 | January 4, 2018 23:00 | 1h 45m | 2,729 | 2,851 |
| 4 | June 19, 2018 23:30 | June 20, 2018 09:45 | 10h 15m | 1,811 | 2,733 |
| 5 | May 16, 2018 22:45 | May 17, 2018 10:00 | 11h 15m | 1,730 | 2,082 |
| 6 | September 9, 2018 01:15 | September 9, 2018 02:30 | 1h 15m | 1,701 | 1,154 |
| 7 | August 19, 2018 01:00 | August 19, 2018 20:45 | 19h 45m | 1,534 | 3,479 |
| 8 | March 2, 2018 06:30 | March 4, 2018 14:30 | 2d 8h | 1,280 | 8,604 |
| 9 | November 16, 2018 16:00 | November 16, 2018 18:15 | 2h 15m | 976 | 740 |
| 10 | December 9, 2018 17:45 | December 11, 2018 16:15 | 1d 22h | 950 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Petersburg 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 ÷ 14,894 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. Petersburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Petersburg 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/petersburg-city