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2016 Prince Edward County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Prince Edward County, VA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 685th 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 Prince Edward 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 | June 4, 2016 11:45 | June 4, 2016 17:00 | 5h 15m | 1,995 | 4,010 |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 9, 2016 22:30 | 1d | 1,609 | 9,507 |
| 3 | March 1, 2016 01:30 | March 1, 2016 03:45 | 2h 15m | 1,280 | 2,674 |
| 4 | May 17, 2016 16:00 | May 17, 2016 21:30 | 5h 30m | 1,276 | 1,746 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 17:00 | February 26, 2016 01:00 | 1d 8h | 1,219 | 4,108 |
| 6 | August 17, 2016 22:30 | August 18, 2016 03:45 | 5h 15m | 930 | 2,188 |
| 7 | July 17, 2016 07:45 | July 17, 2016 13:00 | 5h 15m | 811 | 1,050 |
| 8 | April 23, 2016 22:30 | April 24, 2016 03:15 | 4h 45m | 710 | 1,511 |
| 9 | January 17, 2016 23:45 | January 18, 2016 00:45 | 1h | 551 | 550 |
| 10 | August 7, 2016 07:00 | August 7, 2016 08:30 | 1h 30m | 540 | 810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 35 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Prince Edward 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 ÷ 10,853 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. Prince Edward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prince Edward 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/prince-edward-county