County annual report · FIPS 51025
2017 Brunswick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Brunswick County, VA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 824th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 20, 2017 00:30 | August 20, 2017 02:00 | 1h 30m | 3,768 | 3,971 |
| 2 | May 25, 2017 07:30 | May 25, 2017 11:15 | 3h 45m | 1,667 | 2,560 |
| 3 | April 15, 2017 11:30 | April 15, 2017 15:00 | 3h 30m | 1,642 | 3,690 |
| 4 | August 20, 2017 03:15 | August 20, 2017 05:15 | 2h | 1,638 | 946 |
| 5 | August 20, 2017 10:45 | August 20, 2017 11:15 | 30m | 1,638 | 819 |
| 6 | September 19, 2017 16:15 | September 19, 2017 17:00 | 45m | 1,472 | 737 |
| 7 | April 6, 2017 20:00 | April 6, 2017 21:45 | 1h 45m | 1,262 | 839 |
| 8 | September 23, 2017 04:00 | September 23, 2017 07:30 | 3h 30m | 1,116 | 3,893 |
| 9 | August 10, 2017 12:45 | August 10, 2017 13:30 | 45m | 964 | 529 |
| 10 | March 14, 2017 09:00 | March 14, 2017 11:00 | 2h | 944 | 1,390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 50 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.94 | 2.5 hrs | 1.69 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,778 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. Brunswick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brunswick County, VA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/virginia/brunswick-county