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2020 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 126th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 2938th 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 Richmond 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 | September 11, 2020 18:15 | September 11, 2020 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,624 | 628 |
| 2 | July 28, 2020 03:00 | July 28, 2020 05:15 | 2h 15m | 1,238 | 2,354 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 20:45 | July 22, 2020 04:15 | 7h 30m | 802 | 308 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 06:30 | February 7, 2020 07:45 | 1h 15m | 793 | 991 |
| 5 | January 4, 2020 23:00 | January 5, 2020 00:45 | 1h 45m | 716 | 182 |
| 6 | November 2, 2020 17:00 | November 2, 2020 17:45 | 45m | 685 | 514 |
| 7 | September 30, 2020 03:00 | September 30, 2020 06:30 | 3h 30m | 359 | 1,257 |
| 8 | February 7, 2020 11:45 | February 8, 2020 13:00 | 1d 1h | 264 | 898 |
| 9 | September 18, 2020 02:45 | September 18, 2020 04:15 | 1h 30m | 225 | 159 |
| 10 | April 13, 2020 13:00 | April 13, 2020 19:00 | 6h | 212 | 736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 112,565 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. Richmond city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-city