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2017 Lunenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lunenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 518th 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 Lunenburg 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 | January 31, 2017 19:45 | February 1, 2017 00:45 | 5h | 1,984 | 1,606 |
| 2 | December 9, 2017 00:30 | December 11, 2017 19:30 | 2d 19h | 1,750 | 32K |
| 3 | December 30, 2017 01:30 | December 30, 2017 11:15 | 9h 45m | 1,202 | 2,026 |
| 4 | January 23, 2017 12:30 | January 23, 2017 13:15 | 45m | 670 | 336 |
| 5 | October 29, 2017 22:15 | October 30, 2017 03:00 | 4h 45m | 589 | 329 |
| 6 | June 19, 2017 21:30 | June 20, 2017 05:30 | 8h | 562 | 885 |
| 7 | July 12, 2017 12:15 | July 12, 2017 14:15 | 2h | 492 | 611 |
| 8 | October 24, 2017 03:30 | October 24, 2017 05:30 | 2h | 490 | 345 |
| 9 | June 17, 2017 04:45 | June 17, 2017 14:00 | 9h 15m | 388 | 1,048 |
| 10 | February 18, 2017 07:30 | February 18, 2017 07:45 | 15m | 344 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lunenburg 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 ÷ 4,827 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. Lunenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lunenburg 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/lunenburg-county