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2018 Northumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Northumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 74.5 hours, a total of 407K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 84th 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 Northumberland 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 | March 2, 2018 10:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 14h | 7,681 | 156K |
| 2 | October 12, 2018 01:15 | October 16, 2018 05:15 | 4d 4h | 5,925 | 197K |
| 3 | August 20, 2018 20:00 | August 20, 2018 21:45 | 1h 45m | 3,587 | 1,714 |
| 4 | January 2, 2018 11:15 | January 2, 2018 13:30 | 2h 15m | 3,572 | 4,742 |
| 5 | October 24, 2018 14:45 | October 24, 2018 16:30 | 1h 45m | 3,010 | 846 |
| 6 | July 27, 2018 10:45 | July 27, 2018 16:00 | 5h 15m | 2,272 | 10K |
| 7 | May 14, 2018 16:45 | May 14, 2018 18:00 | 1h 15m | 2,070 | 619 |
| 8 | September 8, 2018 14:00 | September 12, 2018 12:45 | 3d 22h | 1,233 | 6,428 |
| 9 | March 7, 2018 01:00 | March 7, 2018 03:30 | 2h 30m | 920 | 1,863 |
| 10 | October 19, 2018 11:15 | October 19, 2018 17:45 | 6h 30m | 869 | 400 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Northumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,466 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/northumberland-county