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2015 Brunswick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Brunswick County, VA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 523rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 9, 2015 16:00 | September 10, 2015 08:45 | 16h 45m | 2,014 | 3,710 |
| 2 | September 2, 2015 22:00 | September 3, 2015 05:15 | 7h 15m | 1,970 | 3,844 |
| 3 | September 26, 2015 09:15 | September 27, 2015 22:00 | 1d 12h | 1,850 | 1,335 |
| 4 | October 10, 2015 03:30 | October 10, 2015 11:30 | 8h | 1,262 | 9,517 |
| 5 | September 28, 2015 21:15 | September 28, 2015 23:00 | 1h 45m | 1,028 | 281 |
| 6 | September 21, 2015 06:15 | September 21, 2015 11:15 | 5h | 933 | 2,098 |
| 7 | September 26, 2015 04:45 | September 26, 2015 06:00 | 1h 15m | 802 | 1,003 |
| 8 | September 4, 2015 19:15 | September 5, 2015 04:15 | 9h | 791 | 1,440 |
| 9 | July 29, 2015 15:15 | July 29, 2015 20:15 | 5h | 708 | 1,099 |
| 10 | September 4, 2015 01:00 | September 4, 2015 05:00 | 4h | 694 | 1,342 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 25 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 6.0 hrs | 2.14 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,778 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. Brunswick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brunswick County, VA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/virginia/brunswick-county