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2015 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 1115th 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 Southampton 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 | May 20, 2015 18:45 | May 20, 2015 21:00 | 2h 15m | 571 | 858 |
| 2 | November 11, 2015 17:45 | November 11, 2015 20:45 | 3h | 429 | 654 |
| 3 | December 5, 2015 00:45 | December 5, 2015 07:00 | 6h 15m | 368 | 1,408 |
| 4 | September 23, 2015 12:45 | September 23, 2015 13:30 | 45m | 321 | 241 |
| 5 | May 5, 2015 15:30 | May 5, 2015 18:15 | 2h 45m | 224 | 171 |
| 6 | August 10, 2015 18:15 | August 11, 2015 11:00 | 16h 45m | 190 | 1,962 |
| 7 | September 12, 2015 21:00 | September 12, 2015 23:15 | 2h 15m | 181 | 404 |
| 8 | April 26, 2015 20:45 | April 26, 2015 21:15 | 30m | 153 | 77 |
| 9 | May 12, 2015 19:00 | May 12, 2015 19:30 | 30m | 153 | 57 |
| 10 | April 20, 2015 21:15 | April 21, 2015 00:45 | 3h 30m | 149 | 335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2015 | 3.4 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2015 | 3.3 hrs | 1.67 | 3.3 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,783 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. Southampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Southampton 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/southampton-county