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2019 Surry County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Surry County, VA went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 375th 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 Surry 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 | April 15, 2019 07:30 | April 15, 2019 19:15 | 11h 45m | 2,320 | 15K |
| 2 | March 22, 2019 23:00 | March 23, 2019 01:30 | 2h 30m | 1,558 | 1,208 |
| 3 | November 1, 2019 04:00 | November 1, 2019 21:30 | 17h 30m | 951 | 3,231 |
| 4 | November 4, 2019 06:45 | November 4, 2019 07:00 | 15m | 917 | 229 |
| 5 | November 4, 2019 07:45 | November 4, 2019 08:00 | 15m | 917 | 229 |
| 6 | August 21, 2019 14:30 | August 21, 2019 20:00 | 5h 30m | 610 | 1,999 |
| 7 | May 31, 2019 03:00 | May 31, 2019 11:15 | 8h 15m | 464 | 1,710 |
| 8 | July 4, 2019 22:00 | July 5, 2019 00:00 | 2h | 451 | 902 |
| 9 | October 22, 2019 09:00 | October 22, 2019 17:30 | 8h 30m | 434 | 1,220 |
| 10 | June 17, 2019 22:15 | June 18, 2019 01:15 | 3h | 418 | 1,147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Surry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,816 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. Surry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Surry 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/surry-county