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2018 Prince Edward County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Prince Edward County, VA went without power for an average of 99.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 49th 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 Prince Edward 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 20:15 | October 18, 2018 22:45 | 7d 2h | 16,283 | 870K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 06:00 | March 5, 2018 20:15 | 3d 14h | 4,315 | 99K |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 18:00 | December 11, 2018 23:30 | 2d 5h | 2,923 | 34K |
| 4 | June 20, 2018 20:30 | June 21, 2018 02:30 | 6h | 2,139 | 3,487 |
| 5 | October 27, 2018 10:30 | October 27, 2018 22:15 | 11h 45m | 2,050 | 6,343 |
| 6 | January 24, 2018 19:30 | January 24, 2018 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1,875 | 1,034 |
| 7 | July 28, 2018 03:45 | July 28, 2018 17:15 | 13h 30m | 1,719 | 4,754 |
| 8 | January 13, 2018 02:45 | January 13, 2018 21:15 | 18h 30m | 1,442 | 2,926 |
| 9 | September 19, 2018 00:30 | September 19, 2018 03:30 | 3h | 1,346 | 1,195 |
| 10 | January 7, 2018 11:15 | January 7, 2018 17:30 | 6h 15m | 1,189 | 1,573 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 58 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Prince Edward 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 ÷ 10,853 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. Prince Edward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prince Edward 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/prince-edward-county