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2018 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 84.6 hours, a total of 305K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 64th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cumberland County, 2018
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 11, 2018 21:00 | October 17, 2018 23:45 | 6d 2h | 4,042 | 216K |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 23:15 | May 15, 2018 20:00 | 20h 45m | 2,054 | 8,012 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 05:00 | March 5, 2018 20:15 | 3d 15h | 1,676 | 38K |
| 4 | May 10, 2018 19:45 | May 11, 2018 07:00 | 11h 15m | 1,496 | 1,431 |
| 5 | December 9, 2018 19:30 | December 11, 2018 16:15 | 1d 20h | 1,261 | 17K |
| 6 | August 28, 2018 13:15 | August 28, 2018 15:00 | 1h 45m | 1,223 | 920 |
| 7 | January 7, 2018 11:15 | January 7, 2018 17:45 | 6h 30m | 1,189 | 1,880 |
| 8 | April 25, 2018 17:30 | April 25, 2018 18:15 | 45m | 1,185 | 393 |
| 9 | December 4, 2018 14:30 | December 4, 2018 18:30 | 4h | 1,074 | 730 |
| 10 | January 13, 2018 11:45 | January 13, 2018 20:45 | 9h | 962 | 956 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 30 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Cumberland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 40.6 hrs | 4.32 | 5.1 hrs | 2.55 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2018 | 13.3 hrs | 3.94 | 2.9 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,604 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland County, VA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/cumberland-county