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2023 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1045th 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 Powhatan 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 | April 1, 2023 19:00 | April 2, 2023 21:15 | 1d 2h | 3,649 | 9,728 |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 21:45 | July 30, 2023 22:45 | 1d 1h | 2,865 | 12K |
| 3 | March 18, 2023 08:15 | March 18, 2023 18:00 | 9h 45m | 2,656 | 3,968 |
| 4 | September 23, 2023 05:00 | September 24, 2023 08:00 | 1d 3h | 2,656 | 10K |
| 5 | June 23, 2023 09:30 | June 24, 2023 00:45 | 15h 15m | 2,618 | 3,314 |
| 6 | June 21, 2023 14:15 | June 22, 2023 02:15 | 12h | 2,573 | 2,036 |
| 7 | February 16, 2023 15:00 | February 17, 2023 00:45 | 9h 45m | 2,476 | 1,745 |
| 8 | July 31, 2023 19:15 | August 2, 2023 02:15 | 1d 7h | 2,475 | 2,296 |
| 9 | December 11, 2023 00:00 | December 11, 2023 18:45 | 18h 45m | 2,382 | 3,872 |
| 10 | April 28, 2023 16:30 | April 28, 2023 21:15 | 4h 45m | 1,656 | 2,085 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 64 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Powhatan 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county