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2020 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1020th 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 Powhatan 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 7, 2020 12:30 | February 9, 2020 00:00 | 1d 11h | 3,087 | 25K |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 10:00 | August 4, 2020 23:45 | 13h 45m | 2,643 | 7,104 |
| 3 | June 23, 2020 23:30 | June 24, 2020 10:00 | 10h 30m | 1,496 | 3,261 |
| 4 | July 31, 2020 21:45 | August 1, 2020 19:45 | 22h | 1,378 | 3,831 |
| 5 | August 15, 2020 06:30 | August 16, 2020 23:45 | 1d 17h | 1,361 | 3,255 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 15:30 | October 31, 2020 00:00 | 1d 8h | 1,336 | 3,486 |
| 7 | April 30, 2020 21:00 | May 1, 2020 06:00 | 9h | 1,304 | 3,601 |
| 8 | August 19, 2020 18:15 | August 19, 2020 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,287 | 1,629 |
| 9 | October 13, 2020 12:00 | October 13, 2020 17:45 | 5h 45m | 1,157 | 2,581 |
| 10 | July 17, 2020 19:00 | July 18, 2020 09:45 | 14h 45m | 1,154 | 848 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 52 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Powhatan 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county