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2022 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 125th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 2902nd 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 Richmond 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 | May 22, 2022 15:45 | May 22, 2022 16:45 | 1h | 2,139 | 1,694 |
| 2 | September 2, 2022 17:15 | September 2, 2022 17:30 | 15m | 807 | 202 |
| 3 | May 28, 2022 23:45 | May 29, 2022 02:00 | 2h 15m | 806 | 1,411 |
| 4 | March 1, 2022 12:30 | March 1, 2022 17:00 | 4h 30m | 774 | 1,611 |
| 5 | March 9, 2022 14:15 | March 9, 2022 15:30 | 1h 15m | 763 | 762 |
| 6 | September 14, 2022 14:30 | September 14, 2022 16:00 | 1h 30m | 688 | 173 |
| 7 | June 2, 2022 12:00 | June 2, 2022 12:45 | 45m | 683 | 512 |
| 8 | June 7, 2022 13:30 | June 7, 2022 14:15 | 45m | 683 | 512 |
| 9 | July 15, 2022 14:00 | July 15, 2022 14:15 | 15m | 683 | 171 |
| 10 | January 3, 2022 13:45 | January 8, 2022 01:00 | 4d 11h | 439 | 8,009 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 20 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/richmond-city