County annual report · FIPS 51049
2015 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 304th 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 Cumberland 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 | June 20, 2015 22:30 | June 23, 2015 00:45 | 2d 2h | 1,069 | 13K |
| 2 | July 1, 2015 01:45 | July 1, 2015 07:30 | 5h 45m | 818 | 4,628 |
| 3 | June 26, 2015 02:15 | June 26, 2015 22:00 | 19h 45m | 762 | 2,702 |
| 4 | April 20, 2015 20:15 | April 21, 2015 06:30 | 10h 15m | 737 | 1,794 |
| 5 | August 28, 2015 07:45 | August 28, 2015 10:30 | 2h 45m | 669 | 1,159 |
| 6 | August 17, 2015 22:45 | August 18, 2015 00:30 | 1h 45m | 576 | 718 |
| 7 | May 6, 2015 16:45 | May 6, 2015 17:30 | 45m | 340 | 192 |
| 8 | November 4, 2015 13:45 | November 4, 2015 14:00 | 15m | 262 | 66 |
| 9 | September 2, 2015 19:45 | September 3, 2015 05:45 | 10h | 205 | 265 |
| 10 | November 19, 2015 11:00 | November 19, 2015 18:45 | 7h 45m | 191 | 639 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2015 | 8.6 hrs | 3.21 | 5.5 hrs | 2.82 |
| 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 ÷ 3,604 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county