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2025 Richmond County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Richmond County, VA went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 1143rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Richmond 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 | April 12, 2025 16:15 | April 12, 2025 18:15 | 2h | 1,714 | 574 |
| 2 | June 19, 2025 22:15 | June 20, 2025 23:45 | 1d 1h | 1,453 | 10K |
| 3 | July 20, 2025 01:00 | July 20, 2025 17:00 | 16h | 963 | 1,575 |
| 4 | June 28, 2025 06:45 | June 28, 2025 14:00 | 7h 15m | 812 | 4,084 |
| 5 | June 15, 2025 06:45 | June 15, 2025 10:00 | 3h 15m | 748 | 2,355 |
| 6 | October 13, 2025 16:30 | October 13, 2025 19:30 | 3h | 744 | 272 |
| 7 | April 14, 2025 14:15 | April 14, 2025 16:15 | 2h | 714 | 1,428 |
| 8 | April 11, 2025 18:30 | April 11, 2025 19:30 | 1h | 664 | 663 |
| 9 | July 15, 2025 01:00 | July 15, 2025 22:30 | 21h 30m | 382 | 2,896 |
| 10 | June 5, 2025 20:30 | June 5, 2025 23:30 | 3h | 373 | 930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 14 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Richmond 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 4,030 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county