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2025 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 36.6 hours, a total of 473K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 137th 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 Powhatan 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 | February 12, 2025 06:00 | February 17, 2025 20:00 | 5d 14h | 10,022 | 283K |
| 2 | June 19, 2025 20:30 | June 21, 2025 00:15 | 1d 3h | 5,400 | 26K |
| 3 | January 6, 2025 09:00 | January 8, 2025 18:15 | 2d 9h | 5,279 | 90K |
| 4 | June 27, 2025 01:15 | June 27, 2025 16:45 | 15h 30m | 5,229 | 21K |
| 5 | September 18, 2025 16:15 | September 18, 2025 22:00 | 5h 45m | 2,706 | 3,341 |
| 6 | July 27, 2025 22:00 | July 28, 2025 19:45 | 21h 45m | 1,362 | 2,182 |
| 7 | July 16, 2025 14:00 | July 16, 2025 23:15 | 9h 15m | 1,354 | 1,229 |
| 8 | September 10, 2025 08:45 | September 10, 2025 10:00 | 1h 15m | 1,310 | 1,459 |
| 9 | April 7, 2025 18:45 | April 7, 2025 23:15 | 4h 30m | 989 | 1,164 |
| 10 | January 9, 2025 15:15 | January 9, 2025 18:15 | 3h | 976 | 248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 46 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Powhatan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county