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2020 Lunenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lunenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1035th 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 Lunenburg 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 11:30 | February 8, 2020 22:30 | 1d 11h | 1,092 | 9,820 |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 19:45 | July 22, 2020 17:30 | 21h 45m | 993 | 1,266 |
| 3 | October 29, 2020 15:45 | October 30, 2020 16:45 | 1d 1h | 952 | 5,140 |
| 4 | December 2, 2020 17:45 | December 2, 2020 19:30 | 1h 45m | 936 | 358 |
| 5 | July 13, 2020 13:30 | July 13, 2020 19:00 | 5h 30m | 550 | 373 |
| 6 | July 31, 2020 23:00 | August 1, 2020 04:45 | 5h 45m | 548 | 1,346 |
| 7 | January 12, 2020 05:30 | January 12, 2020 21:00 | 15h 30m | 402 | 3,409 |
| 8 | August 18, 2020 14:30 | August 18, 2020 18:00 | 3h 30m | 375 | 438 |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 22:15 | February 7, 2020 01:45 | 3h 30m | 369 | 1,030 |
| 10 | August 3, 2020 23:00 | August 4, 2020 14:15 | 15h 15m | 261 | 500 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 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 Lunenburg 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 ÷ 4,827 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. Lunenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lunenburg 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/lunenburg-county