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2017 Surry County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Surry County, VA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 9,568 customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1223rd 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 Surry 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 | October 24, 2017 04:15 | October 24, 2017 07:45 | 3h 30m | 702 | 1,433 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 17:45 | April 6, 2017 21:00 | 3h 15m | 476 | 808 |
| 3 | June 21, 2017 22:00 | June 22, 2017 11:45 | 13h 45m | 443 | 1,747 |
| 4 | June 22, 2017 20:15 | June 22, 2017 21:00 | 45m | 442 | 243 |
| 5 | July 29, 2017 17:30 | July 29, 2017 18:30 | 1h | 304 | 90 |
| 6 | August 12, 2017 07:45 | August 12, 2017 08:00 | 15m | 303 | 76 |
| 7 | August 29, 2017 19:45 | August 30, 2017 07:15 | 11h 30m | 303 | 3,009 |
| 8 | April 7, 2017 16:15 | April 7, 2017 16:30 | 15m | 302 | 76 |
| 9 | April 27, 2017 17:30 | April 27, 2017 19:15 | 1h 45m | 229 | 401 |
| 10 | February 11, 2017 03:15 | February 11, 2017 13:45 | 10h 30m | 171 | 343 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 10 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Surry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,816 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. Surry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Surry 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/surry-county