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2021 Petersburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Petersburg city, VA went without power for an average of 36.1 hours, a total of 538K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 249th 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 Petersburg 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 | February 13, 2021 02:00 | February 25, 2021 18:00 | 12d 16h | 11,431 | 501K |
| 2 | August 17, 2021 18:15 | August 18, 2021 07:45 | 13h 30m | 4,960 | 2,622 |
| 3 | July 15, 2021 11:15 | July 15, 2021 17:00 | 5h 45m | 3,812 | 2,494 |
| 4 | January 31, 2021 17:00 | January 31, 2021 20:00 | 3h | 1,773 | 1,621 |
| 5 | September 1, 2021 17:00 | September 1, 2021 22:45 | 5h 45m | 1,294 | 1,495 |
| 6 | September 23, 2021 07:30 | September 23, 2021 09:00 | 1h 30m | 1,171 | 400 |
| 7 | August 14, 2021 22:45 | August 16, 2021 14:45 | 1d 16h | 743 | 6,363 |
| 8 | December 20, 2021 18:45 | December 20, 2021 23:15 | 4h 30m | 684 | 478 |
| 9 | January 30, 2021 06:30 | January 30, 2021 08:30 | 2h | 512 | 1,024 |
| 10 | August 17, 2021 10:30 | August 17, 2021 11:15 | 45m | 501 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 41 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Petersburg 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 ÷ 14,894 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. Petersburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Petersburg 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/petersburg-city