County annual report · FIPS 51049
2016 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 343rd 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 Cumberland 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 27, 2016 20:45 | July 28, 2016 10:00 | 13h 15m | 1,266 | 2,446 |
| 2 | October 20, 2016 19:15 | October 21, 2016 00:00 | 4h 45m | 1,215 | 2,433 |
| 3 | August 16, 2016 01:30 | August 16, 2016 15:45 | 14h 15m | 796 | 1,876 |
| 4 | September 27, 2016 12:00 | September 27, 2016 16:15 | 4h 15m | 782 | 3,324 |
| 5 | May 21, 2016 09:15 | May 21, 2016 17:15 | 8h | 774 | 1,374 |
| 6 | September 26, 2016 12:00 | September 26, 2016 18:15 | 6h 15m | 760 | 3,365 |
| 7 | June 17, 2016 01:15 | June 18, 2016 17:00 | 1d 15h | 742 | 3,762 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 22:30 | February 25, 2016 21:30 | 23h | 585 | 1,907 |
| 9 | September 27, 2016 17:30 | September 27, 2016 20:45 | 3h 15m | 500 | 1,612 |
| 10 | October 20, 2016 17:15 | October 20, 2016 17:30 | 15m | 482 | 121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 2.72 | 4.6 hrs | 2.61 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/cumberland-county