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2017 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 16.3 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 341st 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 Cumberland 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 | July 23, 2017 13:30 | July 23, 2017 22:15 | 8h 45m | 2,463 | 1,942 |
| 2 | July 24, 2017 15:15 | July 24, 2017 18:45 | 3h 30m | 2,374 | 600 |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 23:30 | December 11, 2017 17:45 | 2d 18h | 2,273 | 35K |
| 4 | August 17, 2017 04:00 | August 17, 2017 07:00 | 3h | 2,212 | 6,636 |
| 5 | May 5, 2017 10:15 | May 5, 2017 15:00 | 4h 45m | 842 | 2,424 |
| 6 | March 27, 2017 06:15 | March 27, 2017 07:30 | 1h 15m | 752 | 667 |
| 7 | August 17, 2017 03:00 | August 17, 2017 03:15 | 15m | 740 | 185 |
| 8 | May 24, 2017 00:15 | May 24, 2017 05:15 | 5h | 610 | 3,044 |
| 9 | March 14, 2017 11:15 | March 14, 2017 13:30 | 2h 15m | 553 | 643 |
| 10 | June 19, 2017 18:00 | June 19, 2017 20:45 | 2h 45m | 423 | 637 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 2.13 | 4.0 hrs | 2.13 |
| 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 ÷ 3,604 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county