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2016 Lunenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lunenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 428th 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 Lunenburg 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 | September 15, 2016 19:00 | September 15, 2016 20:00 | 1h | 2,070 | 698 |
| 2 | June 21, 2016 14:00 | June 21, 2016 20:00 | 6h | 1,940 | 12K |
| 3 | May 2, 2016 13:30 | May 2, 2016 13:45 | 15m | 1,340 | 335 |
| 4 | April 2, 2016 06:15 | April 2, 2016 08:15 | 2h | 944 | 1,654 |
| 5 | July 31, 2016 05:30 | July 31, 2016 05:45 | 15m | 780 | 195 |
| 6 | June 16, 2016 14:30 | June 16, 2016 19:30 | 5h | 632 | 560 |
| 7 | July 27, 2016 04:00 | July 27, 2016 16:45 | 12h 45m | 534 | 1,638 |
| 8 | October 9, 2016 00:15 | October 10, 2016 00:45 | 1d | 530 | 5,354 |
| 9 | August 6, 2016 21:45 | August 7, 2016 06:15 | 8h 30m | 523 | 1,015 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 23:00 | February 26, 2016 02:15 | 1d 3h | 471 | 2,450 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 30 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lunenburg 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 ÷ 4,827 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. Lunenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lunenburg 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/lunenburg-county