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2022 Portsmouth city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Portsmouth city, VA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 119th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 2122nd 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 Portsmouth city, 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 | September 11, 2022 18:00 | September 12, 2022 06:00 | 12h | 7,194 | 7,910 |
| 2 | December 30, 2022 03:00 | December 31, 2022 01:00 | 22h | 4,247 | 3,393 |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 09:30 | October 2, 2022 01:30 | 1d 16h | 3,932 | 25K |
| 4 | September 29, 2022 20:45 | September 30, 2022 04:00 | 7h 15m | 3,406 | 2,227 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 14:45 | December 25, 2022 09:00 | 1d 18h | 3,243 | 4,480 |
| 6 | February 6, 2022 15:00 | February 6, 2022 18:30 | 3h 30m | 2,116 | 2,882 |
| 7 | June 20, 2022 01:30 | June 20, 2022 23:00 | 21h 30m | 1,568 | 3,883 |
| 8 | November 12, 2022 03:00 | November 12, 2022 23:15 | 20h 15m | 1,402 | 1,968 |
| 9 | April 20, 2022 14:00 | April 20, 2022 14:30 | 30m | 1,397 | 372 |
| 10 | March 25, 2022 02:30 | March 25, 2022 05:30 | 3h | 1,305 | 1,307 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 65 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Portsmouth city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 43,205 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. Portsmouth city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Portsmouth city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/virginia/portsmouth-city