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2025 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 1023rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 19, 2025 22:00 | June 21, 2025 03:45 | 1d 5h | 3,090 | 12K |
| 2 | July 8, 2025 23:15 | July 9, 2025 21:45 | 22h 30m | 1,747 | 7,495 |
| 3 | September 16, 2025 18:30 | September 17, 2025 00:00 | 5h 30m | 1,042 | 1,725 |
| 4 | December 28, 2025 00:45 | December 28, 2025 02:00 | 1h 15m | 875 | 448 |
| 5 | April 12, 2025 16:15 | April 12, 2025 16:30 | 15m | 774 | 194 |
| 6 | April 1, 2025 00:30 | April 1, 2025 11:00 | 10h 30m | 556 | 2,551 |
| 7 | July 21, 2025 12:15 | July 21, 2025 21:30 | 9h 15m | 491 | 267 |
| 8 | June 29, 2025 19:30 | June 30, 2025 09:30 | 14h | 457 | 194 |
| 9 | December 14, 2025 23:15 | December 15, 2025 08:45 | 9h 30m | 341 | 966 |
| 10 | May 31, 2025 06:00 | May 31, 2025 08:30 | 2h 30m | 272 | 657 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/virginia/essex-county