County annual report · FIPS 51540
2023 Charlottesville city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Charlottesville city, VA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1862nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charlottesville city, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 4, 2023 01:45 | July 4, 2023 17:45 | 16h | 7,440 | 9,503 |
| 2 | March 10, 2023 20:00 | March 11, 2023 01:45 | 5h 45m | 4,323 | 2,606 |
| 3 | January 3, 2023 19:45 | January 4, 2023 02:00 | 6h 15m | 2,812 | 757 |
| 4 | July 31, 2023 16:45 | July 31, 2023 20:00 | 3h 15m | 2,808 | 3,754 |
| 5 | January 24, 2023 03:30 | January 24, 2023 04:45 | 1h 15m | 2,435 | 2,890 |
| 6 | August 7, 2023 10:00 | August 7, 2023 19:30 | 9h 30m | 2,363 | 896 |
| 7 | December 24, 2023 11:00 | December 24, 2023 14:45 | 3h 45m | 2,349 | 1,345 |
| 8 | April 15, 2023 03:30 | April 15, 2023 06:00 | 2h 30m | 2,185 | 2,722 |
| 9 | May 8, 2023 19:15 | May 8, 2023 22:00 | 2h 45m | 2,107 | 662 |
| 10 | April 20, 2023 03:45 | April 20, 2023 16:00 | 12h 15m | 1,767 | 1,496 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 41 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Charlottesville city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 20,605 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. Charlottesville city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlottesville city, VA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/virginia/charlottesville-city