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2021 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 181K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 112th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2169th 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 Newport News city, 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 10, 2021 16:30 | August 11, 2021 15:30 | 23h | 5,715 | 7,536 |
| 2 | May 14, 2021 11:45 | May 14, 2021 23:15 | 11h 30m | 4,733 | 6,186 |
| 3 | August 13, 2021 10:15 | August 13, 2021 19:30 | 9h 15m | 4,253 | 9,864 |
| 4 | September 8, 2021 13:30 | September 9, 2021 17:15 | 1d 3h | 3,229 | 18K |
| 5 | December 29, 2021 15:00 | December 30, 2021 04:30 | 13h 30m | 2,790 | 3,237 |
| 6 | August 30, 2021 13:30 | August 31, 2021 15:45 | 1d 2h | 2,529 | 8,474 |
| 7 | June 21, 2021 18:00 | June 21, 2021 23:00 | 5h | 2,445 | 1,362 |
| 8 | November 19, 2021 02:30 | November 19, 2021 07:45 | 5h 15m | 2,374 | 3,469 |
| 9 | September 25, 2021 10:00 | September 25, 2021 18:15 | 8h 15m | 2,111 | 3,111 |
| 10 | May 26, 2021 10:30 | May 26, 2021 16:30 | 6h | 2,082 | 2,404 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 107 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Newport News city 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News city, 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/newport-news-city