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2024 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1171st 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 Essex 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 | May 1, 2024 18:15 | May 1, 2024 20:45 | 2h 30m | 6,694 | 5,932 |
| 2 | January 13, 2024 14:00 | January 13, 2024 16:15 | 2h 15m | 2,485 | 1,801 |
| 3 | April 11, 2024 19:00 | April 11, 2024 19:15 | 15m | 1,284 | 321 |
| 4 | June 26, 2024 22:15 | June 28, 2024 04:00 | 1d 5h | 1,073 | 14K |
| 5 | November 21, 2024 03:30 | November 21, 2024 06:30 | 3h | 893 | 1,219 |
| 6 | May 28, 2024 23:45 | May 29, 2024 02:15 | 2h 30m | 480 | 458 |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 17:30 | January 10, 2024 23:00 | 1d 5h | 442 | 2,917 |
| 8 | August 9, 2024 12:30 | August 10, 2024 01:45 | 13h 15m | 419 | 490 |
| 9 | May 28, 2024 18:15 | May 28, 2024 18:30 | 15m | 398 | 100 |
| 10 | August 30, 2024 11:15 | August 30, 2024 16:30 | 5h 15m | 279 | 712 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 2.16 | 3.1 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county