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2018 Virginia Beach city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Virginia Beach city, VA went without power for an average of 10.6 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 519th 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 Virginia Beach 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 23:00 | October 16, 2018 20:45 | 4d 21h | 55,532 | 1.1M |
| 2 | January 4, 2018 01:45 | January 9, 2018 18:45 | 5d 17h | 31,224 | 404K |
| 3 | June 24, 2018 17:15 | June 26, 2018 09:00 | 1d 15h | 11,457 | 67K |
| 4 | August 10, 2018 07:30 | August 14, 2018 04:15 | 3d 20h | 6,328 | 31K |
| 5 | September 27, 2018 16:45 | September 27, 2018 23:15 | 6h 30m | 5,973 | 2,959 |
| 6 | September 11, 2018 11:15 | September 12, 2018 10:15 | 23h | 5,558 | 5,541 |
| 7 | January 16, 2018 11:15 | January 17, 2018 03:15 | 16h | 5,540 | 4,633 |
| 8 | January 2, 2018 19:00 | January 3, 2018 23:45 | 1d 4h | 5,234 | 26K |
| 9 | September 1, 2018 15:30 | September 3, 2018 19:15 | 2d 3h | 5,133 | 4,005 |
| 10 | September 17, 2018 08:00 | September 18, 2018 05:15 | 21h 15m | 4,885 | 4,952 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 186 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Virginia Beach 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 ÷ 190,947 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. Virginia Beach city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Virginia Beach 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/virginia-beach-city