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2020 Suffolk city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Suffolk city, VA went without power for an average of 25.4 hours, a total of 685K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 333rd 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 Suffolk city, 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 05:15 | August 7, 2020 23:45 | 3d 18h | 25,212 | 493K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 11:30 | April 15, 2020 10:30 | 1d 23h | 5,594 | 54K |
| 3 | April 20, 2020 19:45 | April 21, 2020 00:15 | 4h 30m | 5,425 | 7,683 |
| 4 | December 25, 2020 02:15 | December 25, 2020 20:30 | 18h 15m | 4,801 | 23K |
| 5 | February 6, 2020 16:45 | February 9, 2020 03:45 | 2d 11h | 4,184 | 14K |
| 6 | May 9, 2020 06:30 | May 10, 2020 04:15 | 21h 45m | 3,084 | 21K |
| 7 | December 11, 2020 03:00 | December 11, 2020 04:00 | 1h | 2,712 | 678 |
| 8 | July 30, 2020 11:45 | July 31, 2020 03:45 | 16h | 1,875 | 9,021 |
| 9 | July 17, 2020 22:15 | July 18, 2020 01:15 | 3h | 1,813 | 1,416 |
| 10 | February 20, 2020 21:45 | February 22, 2020 19:30 | 1d 21h | 1,701 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 60 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Suffolk city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 26,940 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. Suffolk city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk city, 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/suffolk-city