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2017 Prince Edward County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Prince Edward County, VA went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 427th 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 Prince Edward 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 | December 8, 2017 22:00 | December 11, 2017 22:30 | 3d | 4,581 | 97K |
| 2 | July 23, 2017 04:00 | July 23, 2017 16:45 | 12h 45m | 1,982 | 3,819 |
| 3 | February 6, 2017 00:00 | February 6, 2017 01:00 | 1h | 1,581 | 1,527 |
| 4 | June 29, 2017 20:15 | June 30, 2017 02:00 | 5h 45m | 1,023 | 1,861 |
| 5 | December 13, 2017 00:45 | December 13, 2017 09:30 | 8h 45m | 1,009 | 6,646 |
| 6 | March 9, 2017 12:00 | March 9, 2017 14:15 | 2h 15m | 1,004 | 1,848 |
| 7 | June 10, 2017 15:00 | June 10, 2017 19:15 | 4h 15m | 1,001 | 706 |
| 8 | December 30, 2017 01:45 | December 30, 2017 03:45 | 2h | 792 | 946 |
| 9 | February 25, 2017 15:00 | February 25, 2017 15:30 | 30m | 734 | 184 |
| 10 | February 25, 2017 17:15 | February 25, 2017 17:30 | 15m | 734 | 184 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 42 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Prince Edward 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 ÷ 10,853 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. Prince Edward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prince Edward 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/prince-edward-county