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2020 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 705th 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 Cumberland 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 | July 12, 2020 14:00 | July 12, 2020 17:45 | 3h 45m | 1,572 | 2,034 |
| 2 | August 3, 2020 15:45 | August 4, 2020 18:15 | 1d 2h | 1,245 | 2,224 |
| 3 | August 12, 2020 20:00 | August 13, 2020 01:30 | 5h 30m | 1,243 | 3,112 |
| 4 | July 13, 2020 14:00 | July 13, 2020 14:15 | 15m | 1,242 | 311 |
| 5 | July 5, 2020 12:30 | July 5, 2020 18:15 | 5h 45m | 1,013 | 835 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 14:15 | October 30, 2020 17:15 | 1d 3h | 971 | 4,548 |
| 7 | June 23, 2020 19:45 | June 23, 2020 21:00 | 1h 15m | 922 | 687 |
| 8 | February 7, 2020 12:15 | February 8, 2020 20:45 | 1d 8h | 875 | 4,963 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 11:15 | April 14, 2020 01:45 | 14h 30m | 638 | 4,023 |
| 10 | July 22, 2020 00:30 | July 22, 2020 14:30 | 14h | 336 | 1,466 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2020 | 8.4 hrs | 3.17 | 5.4 hrs | 2.32 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/cumberland-county