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2020 Virginia Beach city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Virginia Beach city, VA went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 129 Virginia counties and 704th 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 Virginia Beach 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 4, 2020 02:30 | August 9, 2020 11:15 | 5d 8h | 74,967 | 1.3M |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 00:15 | April 16, 2020 04:30 | 3d 4h | 44,808 | 484K |
| 3 | October 29, 2020 02:30 | October 30, 2020 17:00 | 1d 14h | 14,003 | 23K |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 10:45 | February 9, 2020 06:15 | 2d 19h | 10,607 | 49K |
| 5 | May 6, 2020 11:30 | May 6, 2020 19:30 | 8h | 5,859 | 4,327 |
| 6 | May 31, 2020 12:30 | June 2, 2020 12:45 | 2d | 4,313 | 12K |
| 7 | May 21, 2020 20:00 | May 23, 2020 06:15 | 1d 10h | 4,285 | 17K |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 02:00 | July 27, 2020 04:30 | 2h 30m | 3,988 | 4,982 |
| 9 | May 14, 2020 22:45 | May 15, 2020 01:00 | 2h 15m | 3,446 | 2,571 |
| 10 | July 31, 2020 20:00 | August 4, 2020 00:45 | 3d 4h | 3,403 | 5,325 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 175 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Virginia Beach 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 ÷ 190,947 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. Virginia Beach city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Virginia Beach 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/virginia-beach-city