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2019 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 316th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cumberland County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 13, 2019 13:00 | January 15, 2019 17:45 | 2d 4h | 1,928 | 25K |
| 2 | February 20, 2019 17:45 | February 21, 2019 22:15 | 1d 4h | 1,424 | 5,641 |
| 3 | July 2, 2019 18:30 | July 2, 2019 20:30 | 2h | 1,004 | 414 |
| 4 | April 12, 2019 06:30 | April 12, 2019 07:15 | 45m | 971 | 332 |
| 5 | April 8, 2019 22:00 | April 9, 2019 04:45 | 6h 45m | 867 | 1,866 |
| 6 | April 30, 2019 20:45 | April 30, 2019 22:00 | 1h 15m | 656 | 820 |
| 7 | April 9, 2019 15:00 | April 9, 2019 16:00 | 1h | 617 | 232 |
| 8 | August 4, 2019 00:15 | August 4, 2019 00:30 | 15m | 617 | 154 |
| 9 | November 22, 2019 07:00 | November 22, 2019 12:00 | 5h | 571 | 1,907 |
| 10 | September 24, 2019 20:30 | September 25, 2019 02:45 | 6h 15m | 569 | 929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 33 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2019, 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/virginia/cumberland-county