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2020 Northumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Northumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 28.1 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 303rd 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 Northumberland 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 | August 4, 2020 08:15 | August 7, 2020 16:00 | 3d 7h | 7,442 | 104K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 20:45 | July 22, 2020 22:00 | 1d 1h | 3,578 | 18K |
| 3 | April 30, 2020 14:45 | May 1, 2020 02:30 | 11h 45m | 2,316 | 1,389 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 06:30 | February 7, 2020 14:15 | 7h 45m | 2,144 | 2,092 |
| 5 | August 12, 2020 19:45 | August 13, 2020 07:30 | 11h 45m | 2,051 | 3,411 |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 14:00 | July 1, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 959 | 480 |
| 7 | May 9, 2020 05:30 | May 9, 2020 10:30 | 5h | 956 | 2,641 |
| 8 | April 13, 2020 12:30 | April 14, 2020 05:45 | 17h 15m | 730 | 2,202 |
| 9 | August 16, 2020 08:00 | August 16, 2020 22:30 | 14h 30m | 685 | 1,142 |
| 10 | April 7, 2020 12:45 | April 7, 2020 13:45 | 1h | 602 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 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 Northumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,466 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/virginia/northumberland-county