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2021 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 125th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2894th 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 Richmond 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 19, 2021 17:15 | February 20, 2021 00:15 | 7h | 1,362 | 3,566 |
| 2 | February 9, 2021 16:30 | February 9, 2021 19:15 | 2h 45m | 803 | 810 |
| 3 | February 13, 2021 17:45 | February 15, 2021 20:00 | 2d 2h | 767 | 6,933 |
| 4 | March 12, 2021 04:30 | March 12, 2021 09:15 | 4h 45m | 682 | 2,215 |
| 5 | June 29, 2021 13:30 | June 29, 2021 17:30 | 4h | 671 | 2,586 |
| 6 | July 14, 2021 12:45 | July 14, 2021 14:30 | 1h 45m | 364 | 540 |
| 7 | February 12, 2021 10:30 | February 12, 2021 13:15 | 2h 45m | 206 | 259 |
| 8 | October 3, 2021 17:00 | October 3, 2021 21:15 | 4h 15m | 205 | 414 |
| 9 | October 16, 2021 20:15 | October 17, 2021 04:45 | 8h 30m | 165 | 632 |
| 10 | January 22, 2021 18:15 | January 22, 2021 20:30 | 2h 15m | 142 | 94 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 112,565 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. Richmond city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-city