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2015 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 127 Virginia counties and 836th 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 Sussex 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 | November 17, 2015 08:45 | November 17, 2015 11:45 | 3h | 402 | 424 |
| 2 | July 21, 2015 00:30 | July 21, 2015 00:45 | 15m | 379 | 95 |
| 3 | December 15, 2015 20:15 | December 15, 2015 21:15 | 1h | 366 | 286 |
| 4 | September 26, 2015 02:30 | September 26, 2015 11:45 | 9h 15m | 345 | 738 |
| 5 | May 12, 2015 21:45 | May 13, 2015 07:00 | 9h 15m | 304 | 650 |
| 6 | June 1, 2015 20:15 | June 2, 2015 16:00 | 19h 45m | 301 | 805 |
| 7 | September 4, 2015 19:45 | September 5, 2015 05:30 | 9h 45m | 301 | 2,865 |
| 8 | October 5, 2015 02:00 | October 5, 2015 20:45 | 18h 45m | 298 | 2,792 |
| 9 | September 10, 2015 22:00 | September 11, 2015 01:15 | 3h 15m | 231 | 402 |
| 10 | December 14, 2015 18:00 | December 14, 2015 21:15 | 3h 15m | 216 | 190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 17 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county