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2016 Brunswick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Brunswick County, VA went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 359th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 5, 2016 02:30 | July 5, 2016 08:30 | 6h | 4,782 | 2,501 |
| 2 | July 29, 2016 22:30 | July 31, 2016 23:30 | 2d 1h | 4,054 | 8,722 |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 10, 2016 12:30 | 1d 14h | 1,676 | 5,346 |
| 4 | February 16, 2016 12:15 | February 16, 2016 21:00 | 8h 45m | 1,424 | 2,259 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 21:45 | February 26, 2016 13:30 | 1d 15h | 1,340 | 10K |
| 6 | December 1, 2016 16:00 | December 1, 2016 21:15 | 5h 15m | 1,260 | 1,598 |
| 7 | December 13, 2016 14:15 | December 13, 2016 18:45 | 4h 30m | 936 | 2,165 |
| 8 | December 11, 2016 12:00 | December 11, 2016 13:45 | 1h 45m | 932 | 1,151 |
| 9 | March 9, 2016 13:45 | March 9, 2016 16:15 | 2h 30m | 928 | 648 |
| 10 | June 5, 2016 23:00 | June 7, 2016 20:15 | 1d 21h | 881 | 2,967 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 51 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.9 hrs | 2.02 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/virginia/brunswick-county