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2021 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 19.5 hours, a total of 252K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 444th 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 Powhatan 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 10:45 | February 26, 2021 01:15 | 12d 14h | 4,951 | 187K |
| 2 | August 13, 2021 19:45 | August 15, 2021 13:30 | 1d 17h | 2,512 | 5,058 |
| 3 | August 18, 2021 20:15 | August 19, 2021 03:30 | 7h 15m | 2,450 | 1,483 |
| 4 | July 6, 2021 11:45 | July 6, 2021 12:00 | 15m | 2,131 | 533 |
| 5 | November 17, 2021 20:00 | November 17, 2021 23:45 | 3h 45m | 1,632 | 658 |
| 6 | November 26, 2021 06:15 | November 26, 2021 09:00 | 2h 45m | 1,626 | 1,076 |
| 7 | June 7, 2021 17:00 | June 7, 2021 21:15 | 4h 15m | 1,440 | 2,203 |
| 8 | June 21, 2021 12:45 | June 21, 2021 17:00 | 4h 15m | 1,285 | 1,694 |
| 9 | September 16, 2021 01:00 | September 16, 2021 04:45 | 3h 45m | 1,178 | 2,148 |
| 10 | August 11, 2021 23:00 | August 13, 2021 11:30 | 1d 12h | 1,170 | 5,630 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 50 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Powhatan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 97.5 hrs | 3.86 | 4.8 hrs | 2.49 |
| 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county