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2019 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 759th 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 Sussex 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 19, 2019 23:15 | April 20, 2019 07:30 | 8h 15m | 1,003 | 4,067 |
| 2 | July 11, 2019 22:15 | July 12, 2019 17:30 | 19h 15m | 985 | 5,073 |
| 3 | April 15, 2019 06:45 | April 15, 2019 23:30 | 16h 45m | 962 | 7,777 |
| 4 | July 1, 2019 13:30 | July 1, 2019 19:30 | 6h | 608 | 161 |
| 5 | August 15, 2019 14:00 | August 15, 2019 15:45 | 1h 45m | 584 | 876 |
| 6 | April 26, 2019 19:45 | April 27, 2019 05:45 | 10h | 517 | 488 |
| 7 | November 1, 2019 03:30 | November 1, 2019 20:15 | 16h 45m | 458 | 1,951 |
| 8 | November 4, 2019 06:45 | November 4, 2019 09:45 | 3h | 357 | 514 |
| 9 | August 7, 2019 19:30 | August 8, 2019 03:15 | 7h 45m | 272 | 450 |
| 10 | July 17, 2019 23:45 | July 18, 2019 12:45 | 13h | 270 | 1,484 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 21 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county