County annual report · FIPS 51175
2016 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 344th 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 Southampton 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 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 22:15 | 2d 23h | 1,724 | 31K |
| 2 | January 20, 2016 12:00 | January 20, 2016 14:30 | 2h 30m | 996 | 2,291 |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 22:45 | February 25, 2016 08:45 | 10h | 671 | 4,521 |
| 4 | November 26, 2016 00:15 | November 26, 2016 20:15 | 20h | 427 | 1,254 |
| 5 | November 28, 2016 00:30 | November 28, 2016 05:00 | 4h 30m | 407 | 1,471 |
| 6 | October 19, 2016 23:00 | October 20, 2016 04:45 | 5h 45m | 314 | 605 |
| 7 | May 31, 2016 02:30 | May 31, 2016 06:30 | 4h | 312 | 1,000 |
| 8 | August 23, 2016 23:45 | August 24, 2016 01:00 | 1h 15m | 229 | 286 |
| 9 | July 31, 2016 20:45 | August 1, 2016 02:00 | 5h 15m | 216 | 330 |
| 10 | June 18, 2016 15:00 | June 18, 2016 16:00 | 1h | 214 | 214 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2016 | 8.1 hrs | 2.10 | 3.9 hrs | 1.52 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,783 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. Southampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Southampton 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/southampton-county