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2018 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 163K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 117th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 2115th 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 Richmond 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 12, 2018 02:15 | October 15, 2018 23:00 | 3d 20h | 2,390 | 120K |
| 2 | February 24, 2018 15:45 | February 24, 2018 18:00 | 2h 15m | 1,585 | 2,448 |
| 3 | March 8, 2018 10:15 | March 8, 2018 10:30 | 15m | 1,503 | 376 |
| 4 | January 6, 2018 12:00 | January 6, 2018 17:00 | 5h | 1,285 | 2,417 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 10:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 14h | 1,197 | 26K |
| 6 | March 17, 2018 23:30 | March 18, 2018 01:00 | 1h 30m | 1,095 | 1,643 |
| 7 | August 6, 2018 20:45 | August 6, 2018 22:30 | 1h 45m | 535 | 445 |
| 8 | February 8, 2018 18:30 | February 8, 2018 21:15 | 2h 45m | 363 | 927 |
| 9 | May 15, 2018 00:15 | May 15, 2018 07:45 | 7h 30m | 336 | 804 |
| 10 | January 5, 2018 19:30 | January 6, 2018 00:15 | 4h 45m | 288 | 1,368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 16 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 112,565 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. Richmond city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-city