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2018 Suffolk city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Suffolk city, VA went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 244K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 626th 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 Suffolk city, 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 | June 23, 2018 01:00 | June 24, 2018 04:45 | 1d 3h | 7,051 | 46K |
| 2 | January 31, 2018 14:00 | January 31, 2018 14:15 | 15m | 7,041 | 1,760 |
| 3 | October 11, 2018 17:45 | October 15, 2018 01:15 | 3d 7h | 6,312 | 103K |
| 4 | December 27, 2018 17:15 | December 28, 2018 01:15 | 8h | 3,469 | 885 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 07:15 | March 4, 2018 23:00 | 2d 15h | 3,222 | 26K |
| 6 | June 5, 2018 16:15 | June 6, 2018 03:00 | 10h 45m | 3,182 | 6,828 |
| 7 | May 6, 2018 07:45 | May 6, 2018 12:45 | 5h | 2,717 | 1,636 |
| 8 | March 12, 2018 20:45 | March 14, 2018 06:15 | 1d 9h | 1,557 | 13K |
| 9 | July 22, 2018 18:45 | July 23, 2018 14:45 | 20h | 1,023 | 2,132 |
| 10 | October 2, 2018 18:30 | October 2, 2018 21:15 | 2h 45m | 1,011 | 776 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 57 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Suffolk city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 26,940 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. Suffolk city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk city, 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/suffolk-city