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2020 Chesapeake city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chesapeake city, VA went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 641st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesapeake city, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 07:00 | August 8, 2020 10:00 | 4d 3h | 57,143 | 814K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 08:00 | April 16, 2020 12:15 | 3d 4h | 37,466 | 247K |
| 3 | April 30, 2020 08:00 | May 1, 2020 07:15 | 23h 15m | 7,051 | 8,603 |
| 4 | July 26, 2020 20:30 | July 27, 2020 06:30 | 10h | 6,555 | 9,390 |
| 5 | December 25, 2020 00:15 | December 25, 2020 21:45 | 21h 30m | 6,228 | 16K |
| 6 | February 6, 2020 17:30 | February 8, 2020 22:45 | 2d 5h | 5,469 | 34K |
| 7 | August 28, 2020 03:30 | August 28, 2020 18:45 | 15h 15m | 5,408 | 10K |
| 8 | August 1, 2020 21:15 | August 3, 2020 06:00 | 1d 8h | 5,201 | 7,574 |
| 9 | May 5, 2020 11:15 | May 5, 2020 12:30 | 1h 15m | 4,260 | 1,067 |
| 10 | January 22, 2020 09:45 | January 22, 2020 18:45 | 9h | 4,251 | 2,661 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 113 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Chesapeake city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 104,567 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. Chesapeake city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesapeake city, VA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/virginia/chesapeake-city