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2020 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 37.2 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 219th 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 Southampton 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 05:30 | August 7, 2020 22:00 | 3d 16h | 3,569 | 99K |
| 2 | February 20, 2020 22:45 | February 22, 2020 15:00 | 1d 16h | 3,292 | 38K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 08:30 | February 8, 2020 20:15 | 1d 11h | 1,667 | 6,691 |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 23:45 | December 25, 2020 16:00 | 16h 15m | 736 | 8,337 |
| 5 | October 29, 2020 17:15 | October 30, 2020 00:30 | 7h 15m | 729 | 1,066 |
| 6 | August 19, 2020 21:45 | August 21, 2020 14:45 | 1d 17h | 718 | 1,554 |
| 7 | April 8, 2020 16:15 | April 8, 2020 18:00 | 1h 45m | 690 | 522 |
| 8 | February 27, 2020 04:15 | February 27, 2020 09:45 | 5h 30m | 666 | 1,029 |
| 9 | August 13, 2020 17:00 | August 13, 2020 22:45 | 5h 45m | 658 | 1,236 |
| 10 | June 22, 2020 19:00 | June 23, 2020 03:15 | 8h 15m | 577 | 1,385 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 39 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 Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | - | 4.4 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 2.49 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,783 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. Southampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Southampton 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/southampton-county