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2017 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 995th 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 Southampton 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 5, 2017 21:30 | July 6, 2017 11:45 | 14h 15m | 1,142 | 11K |
| 2 | July 6, 2017 13:00 | July 6, 2017 19:15 | 6h 15m | 1,142 | 1,151 |
| 3 | January 22, 2017 06:30 | January 22, 2017 08:45 | 2h 15m | 1,005 | 1,469 |
| 4 | December 13, 2017 00:30 | December 13, 2017 03:15 | 2h 45m | 565 | 751 |
| 5 | June 6, 2017 04:45 | June 6, 2017 07:45 | 3h | 438 | 770 |
| 6 | August 29, 2017 18:30 | August 30, 2017 01:45 | 7h 15m | 373 | 1,616 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 13:00 | June 16, 2017 13:15 | 15m | 286 | 72 |
| 8 | July 12, 2017 18:45 | July 12, 2017 19:45 | 1h | 226 | 226 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 02:15 | March 2, 2017 03:45 | 1h 30m | 122 | 111 |
| 10 | October 14, 2017 15:15 | October 14, 2017 15:45 | 30m | 121 | 61 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 13 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 Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.10 | 2.3 hrs | 1.10 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,783 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. Southampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Southampton 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/southampton-county