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2023 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1365th 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 Essex 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 | January 26, 2023 17:30 | January 26, 2023 18:00 | 30m | 2,079 | 847 |
| 2 | July 3, 2023 19:45 | July 4, 2023 03:30 | 7h 45m | 2,046 | 2,767 |
| 3 | September 8, 2023 15:00 | September 9, 2023 00:30 | 9h 30m | 1,979 | 2,102 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 22:15 | April 2, 2023 15:30 | 17h 15m | 698 | 3,444 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 21:00 | July 30, 2023 11:00 | 14h | 494 | 3,595 |
| 6 | August 8, 2023 15:45 | August 8, 2023 21:00 | 5h 15m | 475 | 125 |
| 7 | August 9, 2023 13:30 | August 9, 2023 16:30 | 3h | 475 | 364 |
| 8 | March 11, 2023 16:00 | March 11, 2023 17:45 | 1h 45m | 436 | 316 |
| 9 | June 11, 2023 20:00 | June 12, 2023 02:00 | 6h | 436 | 224 |
| 10 | August 18, 2023 01:15 | August 18, 2023 07:45 | 6h 30m | 417 | 1,880 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county