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2018 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 50.0 hours, a total of 647K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 120th 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 Powhatan 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 19:30 | October 17, 2018 22:15 | 6d 2h | 12,158 | 429K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 07:00 | March 5, 2018 22:00 | 3d 15h | 5,951 | 133K |
| 3 | May 14, 2018 18:15 | May 16, 2018 04:30 | 1d 10h | 4,517 | 19K |
| 4 | June 28, 2018 15:30 | June 28, 2018 16:00 | 30m | 2,468 | 769 |
| 5 | January 7, 2018 09:00 | January 8, 2018 23:00 | 1d 14h | 1,417 | 11K |
| 6 | May 10, 2018 20:15 | May 11, 2018 09:15 | 13h | 1,410 | 2,357 |
| 7 | June 24, 2018 20:30 | June 25, 2018 09:15 | 12h 45m | 1,310 | 1,886 |
| 8 | August 8, 2018 20:00 | August 8, 2018 22:15 | 2h 15m | 1,267 | 963 |
| 9 | August 2, 2018 15:15 | August 3, 2018 01:45 | 10h 30m | 1,254 | 575 |
| 10 | April 25, 2018 17:15 | April 25, 2018 18:30 | 1h 15m | 1,182 | 395 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 48 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Powhatan 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county