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2018 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 575th 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 Southampton 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 14:00 | March 4, 2018 22:15 | 2d 8h | 1,728 | 7,895 |
| 2 | October 12, 2018 02:00 | October 14, 2018 11:30 | 2d 9h | 1,592 | 15K |
| 3 | April 2, 2018 22:30 | April 3, 2018 03:30 | 5h | 1,226 | 654 |
| 4 | January 3, 2018 11:45 | January 3, 2018 18:15 | 6h 30m | 1,003 | 4,112 |
| 5 | March 7, 2018 03:00 | March 7, 2018 07:45 | 4h 45m | 1,002 | 1,706 |
| 6 | December 9, 2018 19:30 | December 10, 2018 11:00 | 15h 30m | 715 | 3,599 |
| 7 | July 18, 2018 05:30 | July 18, 2018 07:30 | 2h | 391 | 782 |
| 8 | January 8, 2018 18:30 | January 9, 2018 08:15 | 13h 45m | 314 | 2,675 |
| 9 | June 2, 2018 02:30 | June 2, 2018 08:15 | 5h 45m | 259 | 302 |
| 10 | January 2, 2018 12:00 | January 2, 2018 17:30 | 5h 30m | 243 | 831 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 18 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2018 | 9.5 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 2.49 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,783 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. Southampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Southampton 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/southampton-county