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2019 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 852nd 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 Powhatan 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 | May 29, 2019 18:15 | May 29, 2019 22:45 | 4h 30m | 5,251 | 5,841 |
| 2 | January 13, 2019 10:45 | January 15, 2019 07:15 | 1d 20h | 2,064 | 26K |
| 3 | March 22, 2019 22:00 | March 23, 2019 09:15 | 11h 15m | 1,838 | 5,628 |
| 4 | May 28, 2019 11:30 | May 28, 2019 14:00 | 2h 30m | 1,834 | 896 |
| 5 | October 3, 2019 03:45 | October 3, 2019 04:00 | 15m | 1,303 | 326 |
| 6 | June 1, 2019 00:45 | June 2, 2019 10:45 | 1d 10h | 1,119 | 3,162 |
| 7 | April 13, 2019 08:45 | April 13, 2019 13:15 | 4h 30m | 952 | 2,073 |
| 8 | October 3, 2019 17:45 | October 3, 2019 20:00 | 2h 15m | 908 | 1,065 |
| 9 | July 10, 2019 15:15 | July 10, 2019 17:15 | 2h | 902 | 1,362 |
| 10 | August 15, 2019 17:45 | August 16, 2019 13:30 | 19h 45m | 825 | 833 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 48 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 Powhatan 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county