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2021 Brunswick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Brunswick County, VA went without power for an average of 107.8 hours, a total of 839K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 67th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 13, 2021 06:15 | February 26, 2021 21:00 | 13d 14h | 8,036 | 790K |
| 2 | March 28, 2021 23:00 | March 29, 2021 17:00 | 18h | 1,649 | 4,348 |
| 3 | March 11, 2021 18:00 | March 11, 2021 22:45 | 4h 45m | 1,515 | 3,019 |
| 4 | August 29, 2021 04:45 | August 29, 2021 21:45 | 17h | 1,485 | 5,722 |
| 5 | May 5, 2021 04:45 | May 5, 2021 10:00 | 5h 15m | 1,355 | 3,225 |
| 6 | November 26, 2021 02:30 | November 26, 2021 04:00 | 1h 30m | 1,342 | 1,202 |
| 7 | July 8, 2021 17:45 | July 9, 2021 03:30 | 9h 45m | 783 | 2,114 |
| 8 | April 21, 2021 17:15 | April 21, 2021 19:00 | 1h 45m | 731 | 368 |
| 9 | June 27, 2021 00:45 | June 27, 2021 08:00 | 7h 15m | 713 | 1,941 |
| 10 | July 2, 2021 10:30 | July 2, 2021 16:00 | 5h 30m | 605 | 750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 41 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 97.5 hrs | 3.86 | 4.8 hrs | 2.49 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 33.7 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.43 |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,778 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. Brunswick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brunswick County, VA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/virginia/brunswick-county