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2021 Mathews County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Mathews County, VA went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 958th 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 Mathews 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 | August 5, 2021 15:30 | August 5, 2021 15:45 | 15m | 2,910 | 728 |
| 2 | July 8, 2021 23:45 | July 9, 2021 21:00 | 21h 15m | 2,620 | 4,409 |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 09:15 | April 30, 2021 10:30 | 1h 15m | 2,480 | 2,061 |
| 4 | June 24, 2021 21:15 | June 24, 2021 21:30 | 15m | 1,355 | 339 |
| 5 | May 15, 2021 10:15 | May 15, 2021 11:00 | 45m | 1,353 | 1,015 |
| 6 | October 16, 2021 19:00 | October 17, 2021 03:00 | 8h | 1,152 | 2,213 |
| 7 | February 22, 2021 06:00 | February 22, 2021 12:45 | 6h 45m | 710 | 4,040 |
| 8 | January 21, 2021 13:30 | January 21, 2021 17:15 | 3h 45m | 666 | 379 |
| 9 | April 21, 2021 22:30 | April 22, 2021 04:30 | 6h | 569 | 900 |
| 10 | May 31, 2021 05:30 | May 31, 2021 11:45 | 6h 15m | 373 | 1,046 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 Mathews 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,233 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. Mathews County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mathews 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/virginia/mathews-county