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2020 Prince Edward County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Prince Edward County, VA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1175th 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 Prince Edward 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 | October 29, 2020 16:00 | October 30, 2020 20:15 | 1d 4h | 1,892 | 9,463 |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 12:30 | February 8, 2020 19:00 | 1d 6h | 1,823 | 19K |
| 3 | February 10, 2020 17:15 | February 10, 2020 18:45 | 1h 30m | 1,272 | 319 |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 18:15 | February 6, 2020 19:15 | 1h | 1,264 | 1,264 |
| 5 | July 26, 2020 08:45 | July 26, 2020 14:00 | 5h 15m | 1,231 | 2,919 |
| 6 | January 10, 2020 19:15 | January 10, 2020 23:15 | 4h | 1,203 | 342 |
| 7 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | April 10, 2020 02:15 | 9h 45m | 1,202 | 1,746 |
| 8 | August 17, 2020 17:45 | August 17, 2020 19:15 | 1h 30m | 1,201 | 1,437 |
| 9 | August 18, 2020 13:00 | August 18, 2020 15:15 | 2h 15m | 1,201 | 937 |
| 10 | January 10, 2020 16:30 | January 10, 2020 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1,043 | 292 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Prince Edward 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 ÷ 10,853 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. Prince Edward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prince Edward 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/prince-edward-county