County annual report · FIPS 51810
2021 Virginia Beach city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Virginia Beach city, VA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 357K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2278th 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 Virginia Beach 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 | September 18, 2021 23:30 | September 19, 2021 13:00 | 13h 30m | 9,025 | 11K |
| 2 | June 11, 2021 12:45 | June 12, 2021 02:45 | 14h | 8,656 | 9,826 |
| 3 | April 29, 2021 19:15 | April 30, 2021 03:45 | 8h 30m | 7,224 | 6,147 |
| 4 | February 10, 2021 13:00 | February 10, 2021 20:00 | 7h | 6,180 | 3,228 |
| 5 | June 8, 2021 11:30 | June 9, 2021 06:00 | 18h 30m | 5,735 | 6,842 |
| 6 | May 4, 2021 12:15 | May 5, 2021 11:15 | 23h | 5,323 | 7,654 |
| 7 | July 26, 2021 11:30 | July 27, 2021 08:00 | 20h 30m | 5,169 | 3,236 |
| 8 | October 26, 2021 10:45 | October 26, 2021 20:30 | 9h 45m | 4,498 | 5,368 |
| 9 | July 17, 2021 11:00 | July 18, 2021 10:00 | 23h | 4,374 | 4,354 |
| 10 | July 28, 2021 10:15 | July 29, 2021 04:00 | 17h 45m | 4,326 | 5,885 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 195 reached 100+ customers, 51 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 Virginia Beach 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 ÷ 190,947 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. Virginia Beach city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Virginia Beach 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/virginia-beach-city