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2016 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 578th 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 Sussex 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 | February 24, 2016 20:00 | February 26, 2016 06:00 | 1d 10h | 989 | 10K |
| 2 | August 21, 2016 23:00 | August 22, 2016 04:45 | 5h 45m | 581 | 784 |
| 3 | July 19, 2016 22:00 | July 21, 2016 04:15 | 1d 6h | 521 | 4,879 |
| 4 | November 23, 2016 02:15 | November 24, 2016 00:00 | 21h 45m | 375 | 1,555 |
| 5 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 9, 2016 21:45 | 23h 15m | 360 | 2,574 |
| 6 | April 3, 2016 07:00 | April 3, 2016 13:00 | 6h | 267 | 1,516 |
| 7 | June 25, 2016 04:00 | June 25, 2016 23:15 | 19h 15m | 244 | 798 |
| 8 | February 4, 2016 10:00 | February 4, 2016 11:30 | 1h 30m | 238 | 355 |
| 9 | December 5, 2016 05:45 | December 5, 2016 07:15 | 1h 30m | 140 | 161 |
| 10 | October 12, 2016 02:30 | October 12, 2016 05:15 | 2h 45m | 128 | 201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county