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2019 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 317K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1403rd 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 Newport News city, 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 | July 30, 2019 21:00 | July 30, 2019 22:00 | 1h | 26,773 | 14K |
| 2 | April 15, 2019 04:30 | April 16, 2019 16:00 | 1d 11h | 8,578 | 57K |
| 3 | March 22, 2019 23:15 | March 23, 2019 13:00 | 13h 45m | 6,857 | 12K |
| 4 | April 19, 2019 22:00 | April 20, 2019 23:15 | 1d 1h | 6,492 | 32K |
| 5 | July 20, 2019 19:45 | July 21, 2019 08:00 | 12h 15m | 6,240 | 8,525 |
| 6 | January 21, 2019 18:15 | January 22, 2019 10:45 | 16h 30m | 5,050 | 4,027 |
| 7 | June 23, 2019 21:15 | June 24, 2019 00:30 | 3h 15m | 3,879 | 2,305 |
| 8 | November 6, 2019 12:00 | November 8, 2019 05:30 | 1d 17h | 3,799 | 5,719 |
| 9 | February 22, 2019 09:00 | February 22, 2019 15:15 | 6h 15m | 3,643 | 12K |
| 10 | July 5, 2019 11:00 | July 5, 2019 20:30 | 9h 30m | 3,388 | 4,328 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 111 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Newport News city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/virginia/newport-news-city