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2023 Mathews County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mathews County, VA went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 515th 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 Mathews 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 | December 2, 2023 01:45 | December 2, 2023 03:00 | 1h 15m | 5,011 | 1,937 |
| 2 | June 21, 2023 07:30 | June 22, 2023 22:45 | 1d 15h | 4,299 | 30K |
| 3 | January 1, 2023 02:30 | January 1, 2023 06:30 | 4h | 2,501 | 2,354 |
| 4 | September 9, 2023 18:45 | September 9, 2023 19:15 | 30m | 2,498 | 717 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 22:15 | July 29, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 1,382 | 896 |
| 6 | February 14, 2023 14:00 | February 14, 2023 21:15 | 7h 15m | 1,336 | 3,348 |
| 7 | May 12, 2023 16:45 | May 12, 2023 18:00 | 1h 15m | 723 | 362 |
| 8 | June 27, 2023 06:45 | June 27, 2023 08:45 | 2h | 655 | 1,146 |
| 9 | March 4, 2023 09:00 | March 4, 2023 13:15 | 4h 15m | 571 | 2,108 |
| 10 | October 4, 2023 13:45 | October 4, 2023 14:45 | 1h | 398 | 300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 23 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Mathews 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,233 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. Mathews County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mathews 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/virginia/mathews-county