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2020 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 650K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1565th 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 Chesterfield County, 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 | February 6, 2020 23:45 | February 9, 2020 04:45 | 2d 5h | 12,076 | 110K |
| 2 | April 24, 2020 13:15 | April 26, 2020 03:15 | 1d 14h | 8,650 | 49K |
| 3 | September 17, 2020 21:00 | September 19, 2020 14:15 | 1d 17h | 6,044 | 28K |
| 4 | November 1, 2020 11:45 | November 2, 2020 20:15 | 1d 8h | 5,704 | 7,268 |
| 5 | May 30, 2020 00:45 | May 30, 2020 13:00 | 12h 15m | 5,656 | 6,623 |
| 6 | August 2, 2020 01:15 | August 8, 2020 01:00 | 5d 23h | 5,365 | 72K |
| 7 | October 10, 2020 12:30 | October 13, 2020 08:00 | 2d 19h | 4,894 | 10K |
| 8 | June 5, 2020 19:15 | June 7, 2020 04:15 | 1d 9h | 4,563 | 24K |
| 9 | October 29, 2020 15:15 | October 30, 2020 19:30 | 1d 4h | 4,252 | 8,648 |
| 10 | September 7, 2020 12:15 | September 8, 2020 06:00 | 17h 45m | 3,941 | 3,979 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 144 reached 100+ customers, 45 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 Chesterfield County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 2.90 | 4.4 hrs | 2.60 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/virginia/chesterfield-county