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2024 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 497K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2039th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesterfield County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 10, 2024 18:15 | March 13, 2024 03:45 | 2d 9h | 9,621 | 13K |
| 2 | August 29, 2024 20:30 | August 31, 2024 05:00 | 1d 8h | 7,587 | 28K |
| 3 | March 20, 2024 12:45 | March 21, 2024 02:30 | 13h 45m | 7,049 | 2,407 |
| 4 | December 5, 2024 13:45 | December 6, 2024 11:45 | 22h | 5,216 | 9,178 |
| 5 | September 9, 2024 14:00 | September 10, 2024 00:00 | 10h | 4,533 | 5,942 |
| 6 | January 13, 2024 04:15 | January 15, 2024 01:15 | 1d 21h | 4,501 | 12K |
| 7 | April 18, 2024 13:45 | April 18, 2024 21:15 | 7h 30m | 4,448 | 4,751 |
| 8 | May 5, 2024 11:15 | May 7, 2024 21:45 | 2d 10h | 4,381 | 9,571 |
| 9 | June 28, 2024 10:45 | June 28, 2024 13:15 | 2h 30m | 4,160 | 2,196 |
| 10 | July 23, 2024 13:45 | August 7, 2024 17:00 | 15d 3h | 3,734 | 51K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 168 reached 100+ customers, 55 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 Chesterfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 6.5 hrs | 3.12 | 5.2 hrs | 2.81 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 155,017 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. Chesterfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesterfield County, VA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/virginia/chesterfield-county