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2020 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 638th 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 Newport News 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 3, 2020 17:30 | August 9, 2020 09:30 | 5d 16h | 32,625 | 804K |
| 2 | May 28, 2020 04:15 | May 28, 2020 06:00 | 1h 45m | 6,683 | 4,169 |
| 3 | June 3, 2020 13:00 | June 5, 2020 00:45 | 1d 11h | 6,569 | 25K |
| 4 | March 25, 2020 12:15 | March 25, 2020 20:15 | 8h | 6,195 | 5,340 |
| 5 | June 9, 2020 05:45 | June 10, 2020 19:00 | 1d 13h | 5,635 | 5,823 |
| 6 | November 22, 2020 16:00 | November 22, 2020 19:15 | 3h 15m | 4,525 | 2,284 |
| 7 | February 7, 2020 12:15 | February 8, 2020 22:45 | 1d 10h | 4,427 | 41K |
| 8 | October 15, 2020 01:15 | October 15, 2020 20:00 | 18h 45m | 4,001 | 7,389 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 11:30 | May 18, 2020 14:15 | 2h 45m | 3,739 | 4,220 |
| 10 | June 13, 2020 07:45 | June 13, 2020 21:15 | 13h 30m | 3,618 | 8,368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 110 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Newport News 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News 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/newport-news-city