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2020 Brunswick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Brunswick County, VA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1430th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 7, 2020 13:00 | February 8, 2020 19:30 | 1d 6h | 1,553 | 11K |
| 2 | February 21, 2020 00:45 | February 21, 2020 20:30 | 19h 45m | 1,523 | 6,172 |
| 3 | August 4, 2020 09:00 | August 5, 2020 02:45 | 17h 45m | 1,126 | 2,473 |
| 4 | July 29, 2020 14:00 | July 29, 2020 16:00 | 2h | 491 | 263 |
| 5 | February 11, 2020 13:15 | February 11, 2020 16:00 | 2h 45m | 480 | 470 |
| 6 | July 20, 2020 18:00 | July 20, 2020 21:30 | 3h 30m | 477 | 861 |
| 7 | August 3, 2020 16:30 | August 3, 2020 18:00 | 1h 30m | 477 | 462 |
| 8 | November 12, 2020 18:15 | November 13, 2020 03:00 | 8h 45m | 474 | 726 |
| 9 | August 13, 2020 13:00 | August 13, 2020 15:30 | 2h 30m | 451 | 286 |
| 10 | September 2, 2020 10:30 | September 2, 2020 11:45 | 1h 15m | 449 | 561 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 2.90 | 4.4 hrs | 2.60 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,778 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. Brunswick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brunswick County, VA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/virginia/brunswick-county