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2020 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1024th 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 Essex 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 | July 28, 2020 22:30 | July 29, 2020 15:45 | 17h 15m | 6,633 | 9,370 |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 13:00 | April 14, 2020 02:30 | 13h 30m | 3,512 | 6,301 |
| 3 | September 10, 2020 00:00 | September 10, 2020 11:15 | 11h 15m | 3,317 | 2,972 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 14:00 | February 8, 2020 19:15 | 1d 5h | 2,222 | 7,381 |
| 5 | August 4, 2020 11:00 | August 4, 2020 20:30 | 9h 30m | 967 | 2,853 |
| 6 | September 11, 2020 19:15 | September 11, 2020 19:30 | 15m | 737 | 184 |
| 7 | June 10, 2020 20:00 | June 10, 2020 21:30 | 1h 30m | 500 | 599 |
| 8 | July 25, 2020 00:15 | July 25, 2020 19:00 | 18h 45m | 437 | 966 |
| 9 | January 11, 2020 21:00 | January 11, 2020 21:15 | 15m | 296 | 74 |
| 10 | February 19, 2020 10:15 | February 19, 2020 17:00 | 6h 45m | 286 | 1,200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.8 hrs | 2.16 | 2.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/essex-county