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2023 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1159th 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 Chesterfield County, 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 | September 7, 2023 21:30 | September 11, 2023 08:15 | 3d 10h | 36,577 | 423K |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 19:45 | August 1, 2023 07:45 | 2d 12h | 15,481 | 71K |
| 3 | June 16, 2023 18:30 | June 20, 2023 07:30 | 3d 13h | 12,231 | 97K |
| 4 | January 20, 2023 16:15 | January 21, 2023 00:45 | 8h 30m | 8,327 | 9,299 |
| 5 | May 1, 2023 13:30 | May 2, 2023 02:30 | 13h | 6,241 | 4,668 |
| 6 | June 4, 2023 06:00 | June 4, 2023 12:45 | 6h 45m | 6,232 | 12K |
| 7 | July 16, 2023 15:00 | July 18, 2023 01:45 | 1d 10h | 5,288 | 16K |
| 8 | June 21, 2023 13:15 | June 24, 2023 23:15 | 3d 10h | 4,977 | 29K |
| 9 | December 4, 2023 22:15 | December 6, 2023 02:00 | 1d 3h | 4,352 | 3,789 |
| 10 | April 15, 2023 04:45 | April 15, 2023 06:45 | 2h | 4,266 | 1,093 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 198 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/virginia/chesterfield-county