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2017 Suffolk city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Suffolk city, VA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1344th 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 Suffolk city, 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 20:15 | December 9, 2017 06:00 | 9h 45m | 5,404 | 5,421 |
| 2 | January 26, 2017 13:45 | January 26, 2017 19:30 | 5h 45m | 3,776 | 5,692 |
| 3 | February 9, 2017 12:45 | February 9, 2017 18:45 | 6h | 3,422 | 3,418 |
| 4 | August 23, 2017 21:00 | August 24, 2017 02:00 | 5h | 2,881 | 2,880 |
| 5 | January 27, 2017 14:30 | January 27, 2017 22:30 | 8h | 2,858 | 760 |
| 6 | October 30, 2017 05:00 | October 30, 2017 15:15 | 10h 15m | 1,718 | 2,643 |
| 7 | October 8, 2017 08:45 | October 8, 2017 11:30 | 2h 45m | 1,510 | 1,215 |
| 8 | October 28, 2017 19:30 | October 30, 2017 04:15 | 1d 8h | 1,242 | 3,057 |
| 9 | October 24, 2017 00:15 | October 24, 2017 18:00 | 17h 45m | 1,223 | 2,953 |
| 10 | April 25, 2017 12:45 | April 25, 2017 15:00 | 2h 15m | 1,062 | 1,939 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 54 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Suffolk city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 26,940 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. Suffolk city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk city, 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/suffolk-city