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2023 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 119th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2465th 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 Newport News 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 | May 7, 2023 06:45 | May 16, 2023 14:45 | 9d 8h | 6,217 | 6,957 |
| 2 | August 26, 2023 04:15 | August 26, 2023 09:30 | 5h 15m | 3,130 | 3,136 |
| 3 | April 23, 2023 12:15 | April 24, 2023 00:30 | 12h 15m | 2,521 | 1,946 |
| 4 | June 4, 2023 22:15 | June 5, 2023 00:00 | 1h 45m | 2,193 | 552 |
| 5 | July 12, 2023 03:15 | July 12, 2023 07:30 | 4h 15m | 2,130 | 2,768 |
| 6 | June 16, 2023 21:30 | June 18, 2023 00:00 | 1d 2h | 1,661 | 13K |
| 7 | September 22, 2023 22:30 | September 24, 2023 07:15 | 1d 8h | 1,512 | 18K |
| 8 | April 30, 2023 18:15 | May 1, 2023 12:45 | 18h 30m | 1,387 | 459 |
| 9 | November 18, 2023 19:00 | November 19, 2023 05:00 | 10h | 1,258 | 1,412 |
| 10 | May 26, 2023 09:00 | May 26, 2023 16:15 | 7h 15m | 1,217 | 1,021 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 88 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Newport News 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News 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/newport-news-city