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2017 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 9,657 customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 106th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1577th 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 Sussex 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 13, 2017 00:15 | December 13, 2017 05:00 | 4h 45m | 566 | 752 |
| 2 | August 6, 2017 00:30 | August 6, 2017 08:00 | 7h 30m | 515 | 876 |
| 3 | September 6, 2017 23:30 | September 7, 2017 01:30 | 2h | 408 | 816 |
| 4 | September 8, 2017 12:30 | September 8, 2017 12:45 | 15m | 408 | 102 |
| 5 | January 8, 2017 18:30 | January 9, 2017 12:15 | 17h 45m | 284 | 789 |
| 6 | July 12, 2017 22:15 | July 13, 2017 00:15 | 2h | 282 | 469 |
| 7 | May 28, 2017 00:30 | May 28, 2017 18:30 | 18h | 244 | 897 |
| 8 | February 10, 2017 10:45 | February 10, 2017 13:45 | 3h | 192 | 254 |
| 9 | September 25, 2017 12:00 | September 25, 2017 22:30 | 10h 30m | 183 | 513 |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 11:15 | May 5, 2017 11:45 | 30m | 128 | 33 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 15 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county