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2019 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 613K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1339th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesterfield County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 15, 2019 00:45 | April 16, 2019 22:45 | 1d 22h | 18,823 | 139K |
| 2 | May 18, 2019 02:00 | May 21, 2019 03:15 | 3d 1h | 11,342 | 28K |
| 3 | January 13, 2019 07:15 | January 15, 2019 00:15 | 1d 17h | 10,853 | 78K |
| 4 | August 14, 2019 23:15 | August 17, 2019 02:30 | 2d 3h | 9,072 | 25K |
| 5 | March 18, 2019 19:15 | March 19, 2019 02:00 | 6h 45m | 6,567 | 1,695 |
| 6 | August 24, 2019 15:15 | August 25, 2019 11:30 | 20h 15m | 5,963 | 13K |
| 7 | May 24, 2019 06:45 | May 25, 2019 09:30 | 1d 2h | 4,940 | 7,732 |
| 8 | October 13, 2019 23:15 | October 14, 2019 10:15 | 11h | 4,543 | 2,816 |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 01:00 | November 2, 2019 03:45 | 2d 2h | 4,473 | 25K |
| 10 | October 29, 2019 15:00 | October 29, 2019 15:15 | 15m | 4,393 | 1,098 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 159 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 Chesterfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 155,017 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. Chesterfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesterfield County, VA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/virginia/chesterfield-county