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2021 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 938th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2021
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 13, 2021 16:45 | February 16, 2021 17:30 | 3d | 2,689 | 29K |
| 2 | September 18, 2021 10:45 | September 18, 2021 13:30 | 2h 45m | 2,497 | 2,025 |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 22:30 | May 4, 2021 23:45 | 1h 15m | 487 | 603 |
| 4 | September 23, 2021 08:00 | September 23, 2021 14:30 | 6h 30m | 408 | 1,000 |
| 5 | February 19, 2021 12:30 | February 19, 2021 21:45 | 9h 15m | 363 | 604 |
| 6 | May 5, 2021 03:15 | May 5, 2021 17:30 | 14h 15m | 270 | 963 |
| 7 | February 7, 2021 16:30 | February 7, 2021 20:15 | 3h 45m | 252 | 494 |
| 8 | April 30, 2021 19:45 | May 1, 2021 01:00 | 5h 15m | 203 | 334 |
| 9 | August 11, 2021 23:00 | August 12, 2021 09:30 | 10h 30m | 189 | 822 |
| 10 | June 9, 2021 22:15 | June 10, 2021 05:45 | 7h 30m | 168 | 511 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 14 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 Essex County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.6 hrs | 2.14 | 2.7 hrs | 1.54 |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex County, VA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/virginia/essex-county