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2020 Petersburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Petersburg city, VA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1487th 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 Petersburg 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 | October 29, 2020 18:00 | October 30, 2020 07:45 | 13h 45m | 3,875 | 6,459 |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 06:30 | August 14, 2020 13:30 | 10d 7h | 2,465 | 13K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 13:30 | February 9, 2020 03:45 | 1d 14h | 2,361 | 18K |
| 4 | September 13, 2020 11:45 | September 13, 2020 13:30 | 1h 45m | 2,311 | 3,024 |
| 5 | March 24, 2020 18:00 | March 24, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 2,001 | 500 |
| 6 | August 22, 2020 21:30 | August 23, 2020 05:30 | 8h | 1,185 | 2,124 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 20:45 | January 11, 2020 21:30 | 45m | 532 | 399 |
| 8 | April 24, 2020 18:15 | April 25, 2020 20:45 | 1d 2h | 505 | 1,305 |
| 9 | May 11, 2020 15:00 | May 11, 2020 15:15 | 15m | 500 | 125 |
| 10 | March 26, 2020 17:45 | March 26, 2020 22:30 | 4h 45m | 372 | 1,764 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Petersburg 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 ÷ 14,894 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. Petersburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Petersburg 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/petersburg-city