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2023 Richmond city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Richmond city, VA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 125th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2915th 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 Richmond 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 | April 6, 2023 20:15 | April 7, 2023 06:00 | 9h 45m | 805 | 522 |
| 2 | November 22, 2023 00:15 | November 22, 2023 02:00 | 1h 45m | 802 | 803 |
| 3 | December 11, 2023 17:45 | December 11, 2023 21:00 | 3h 15m | 716 | 421 |
| 4 | July 9, 2023 16:00 | July 9, 2023 18:30 | 2h 30m | 546 | 1,365 |
| 5 | March 23, 2023 12:45 | March 23, 2023 14:00 | 1h 15m | 472 | 590 |
| 6 | September 18, 2023 07:15 | September 18, 2023 10:45 | 3h 30m | 360 | 1,024 |
| 7 | July 29, 2023 22:45 | July 30, 2023 13:30 | 14h 45m | 320 | 1,036 |
| 8 | January 5, 2023 17:00 | January 5, 2023 17:30 | 30m | 317 | 159 |
| 9 | June 21, 2023 12:45 | June 22, 2023 03:15 | 14h 30m | 297 | 700 |
| 10 | September 23, 2023 05:45 | September 23, 2023 15:00 | 9h 15m | 263 | 685 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 16 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 112,565 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. Richmond city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-city