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2022 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 830K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1334th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesterfield County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 21, 2022 12:00 | June 25, 2022 09:00 | 3d 21h | 25,332 | 197K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 05:15 | December 27, 2022 11:30 | 4d 6h | 17,317 | 80K |
| 3 | March 31, 2022 09:45 | April 1, 2022 02:00 | 16h 15m | 6,993 | 23K |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 19:00 | October 4, 2022 08:00 | 3d 13h | 6,965 | 33K |
| 5 | August 4, 2022 17:45 | August 5, 2022 14:30 | 20h 45m | 6,565 | 25K |
| 6 | September 25, 2022 21:00 | September 27, 2022 02:30 | 1d 5h | 6,378 | 42K |
| 7 | May 20, 2022 17:30 | May 22, 2022 01:15 | 1d 7h | 6,364 | 8,871 |
| 8 | June 4, 2022 09:45 | June 4, 2022 11:00 | 1h 15m | 5,709 | 2,328 |
| 9 | August 10, 2022 19:45 | August 13, 2022 02:15 | 2d 6h | 4,330 | 14K |
| 10 | November 11, 2022 16:45 | November 13, 2022 02:30 | 1d 9h | 4,181 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 152 reached 100+ customers, 58 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Chesterfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 18.3 hrs | 4.07 | 5.4 hrs | 2.79 |
| 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 155,017 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. Chesterfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesterfield County, VA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/virginia/chesterfield-county