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2020 Mathews County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mathews County, VA went without power for an average of 34.9 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 232nd 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 Mathews 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 | August 4, 2020 09:15 | August 6, 2020 17:45 | 2d 8h | 5,954 | 60K |
| 2 | May 30, 2020 03:00 | May 30, 2020 08:15 | 5h 15m | 5,356 | 14K |
| 3 | June 7, 2020 02:15 | June 8, 2020 00:30 | 22h 15m | 3,815 | 11K |
| 4 | January 17, 2020 16:45 | January 17, 2020 20:30 | 3h 45m | 1,311 | 4,077 |
| 5 | November 26, 2020 09:00 | November 26, 2020 13:30 | 4h 30m | 1,093 | 2,461 |
| 6 | February 7, 2020 15:00 | February 8, 2020 23:15 | 1d 8h | 867 | 3,897 |
| 7 | April 30, 2020 14:30 | April 30, 2020 22:15 | 7h 45m | 401 | 924 |
| 8 | June 12, 2020 20:00 | June 12, 2020 23:15 | 3h 15m | 401 | 500 |
| 9 | November 28, 2020 22:15 | November 29, 2020 03:45 | 5h 30m | 397 | 1,354 |
| 10 | December 25, 2020 00:30 | December 25, 2020 16:45 | 16h 15m | 305 | 2,718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Mathews 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,233 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. Mathews County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mathews 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/virginia/mathews-county