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2016 Suffolk city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Suffolk city, VA went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 331K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 278th 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 Suffolk city, 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 13, 2016 02:30 | 4d 4h | 10,844 | 261K |
| 2 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 3, 2016 16:00 | 20h 15m | 3,875 | 5,444 |
| 3 | October 31, 2016 13:30 | October 31, 2016 20:15 | 6h 45m | 2,861 | 1,446 |
| 4 | April 6, 2016 11:00 | April 6, 2016 12:15 | 1h 15m | 2,583 | 3,229 |
| 5 | April 21, 2016 16:45 | April 21, 2016 17:45 | 1h | 1,781 | 810 |
| 6 | September 3, 2016 02:30 | September 5, 2016 01:30 | 1d 23h | 1,643 | 16K |
| 7 | March 31, 2016 16:15 | March 31, 2016 19:00 | 2h 45m | 1,555 | 1,172 |
| 8 | June 1, 2016 12:30 | June 2, 2016 00:15 | 11h 45m | 1,338 | 3,426 |
| 9 | November 12, 2016 19:15 | November 12, 2016 19:30 | 15m | 1,268 | 317 |
| 10 | June 22, 2016 10:30 | June 22, 2016 10:45 | 15m | 1,127 | 282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 55 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Suffolk city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 26,940 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. Suffolk city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk city, 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/suffolk-city