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2025 Newport News city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Newport News city, VA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 2298th 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 Newport News city, 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 | October 16, 2025 13:00 | October 16, 2025 19:15 | 6h 15m | 4,710 | 2,590 |
| 2 | July 27, 2025 21:15 | July 29, 2025 05:30 | 1d 8h | 3,845 | 13K |
| 3 | July 30, 2025 23:45 | August 2, 2025 01:00 | 2d 1h | 3,413 | 26K |
| 4 | July 21, 2025 13:45 | July 21, 2025 19:15 | 5h 30m | 3,266 | 2,492 |
| 5 | September 18, 2025 17:00 | September 18, 2025 19:45 | 2h 45m | 2,981 | 1,550 |
| 6 | December 19, 2025 14:15 | December 20, 2025 00:30 | 10h 15m | 2,867 | 4,099 |
| 7 | December 28, 2025 23:00 | January 1, 2026 00:00 | 3d 1h | 2,521 | 3,478 |
| 8 | June 19, 2025 14:45 | June 20, 2025 21:15 | 1d 6h | 2,466 | 2,510 |
| 9 | April 16, 2025 08:45 | April 16, 2025 10:00 | 1h 15m | 2,349 | 598 |
| 10 | September 26, 2025 02:30 | September 27, 2025 04:15 | 1d 1h | 2,259 | 6,007 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 122 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Newport News city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 84,935 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. Newport News city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport News city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2025/virginia/newport-news-city