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2020 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 993rd 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 Sussex 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 07:00 | August 5, 2020 21:00 | 1d 14h | 925 | 5,849 |
| 2 | December 25, 2020 17:30 | December 25, 2020 23:45 | 6h 15m | 580 | 2,979 |
| 3 | April 24, 2020 21:45 | April 25, 2020 03:30 | 5h 45m | 418 | 1,208 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 14:00 | February 9, 2020 00:15 | 1d 10h | 293 | 6,411 |
| 5 | June 22, 2020 12:45 | June 23, 2020 04:30 | 15h 45m | 276 | 955 |
| 6 | August 7, 2020 03:15 | August 7, 2020 14:00 | 10h 45m | 219 | 1,819 |
| 7 | July 28, 2020 18:45 | July 28, 2020 22:15 | 3h 30m | 213 | 182 |
| 8 | December 25, 2020 02:45 | December 25, 2020 16:00 | 13h 15m | 212 | 550 |
| 9 | July 23, 2020 01:15 | July 23, 2020 04:30 | 3h 15m | 207 | 647 |
| 10 | March 20, 2020 23:15 | March 21, 2020 00:30 | 1h 15m | 205 | 256 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county