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2019 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1263rd 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 Essex 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 | October 14, 2019 19:15 | October 14, 2019 20:00 | 45m | 2,463 | 616 |
| 2 | January 9, 2019 22:30 | January 9, 2019 23:45 | 1h 15m | 2,086 | 1,128 |
| 3 | July 31, 2019 21:15 | August 1, 2019 07:15 | 10h | 2,068 | 2,225 |
| 4 | December 3, 2019 07:00 | December 3, 2019 08:30 | 1h 30m | 1,312 | 1,968 |
| 5 | May 18, 2019 03:00 | May 18, 2019 04:30 | 1h 30m | 982 | 1,473 |
| 6 | August 20, 2019 23:45 | August 21, 2019 17:30 | 17h 45m | 671 | 1,245 |
| 7 | April 18, 2019 05:00 | April 18, 2019 07:30 | 2h 30m | 421 | 1,044 |
| 8 | July 1, 2019 19:00 | July 1, 2019 19:15 | 15m | 410 | 103 |
| 9 | October 27, 2019 11:45 | October 27, 2019 13:15 | 1h 30m | 385 | 470 |
| 10 | August 19, 2019 16:15 | August 19, 2019 16:30 | 15m | 383 | 96 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 20 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2018 | 21.3 hrs | 2.99 | 2.8 hrs | 1.58 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county