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2021 Lunenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lunenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 210.6 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 25th 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 Lunenburg 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 08:15 | February 26, 2021 06:45 | 12d 22h | 6,723 | 987K |
| 2 | April 10, 2021 07:30 | April 10, 2021 14:30 | 7h | 902 | 1,947 |
| 3 | February 28, 2021 15:00 | March 1, 2021 00:15 | 9h 15m | 861 | 1,028 |
| 4 | February 26, 2021 18:30 | February 28, 2021 14:00 | 1d 19h | 854 | 1,327 |
| 5 | November 17, 2021 01:00 | November 17, 2021 03:00 | 2h | 777 | 202 |
| 6 | June 30, 2021 15:30 | June 30, 2021 15:45 | 15m | 772 | 193 |
| 7 | July 17, 2021 22:30 | July 18, 2021 22:00 | 23h 30m | 759 | 3,844 |
| 8 | December 17, 2021 19:15 | December 17, 2021 19:45 | 30m | 660 | 330 |
| 9 | August 29, 2021 00:30 | August 29, 2021 16:30 | 16h | 498 | 3,218 |
| 10 | January 28, 2021 09:45 | January 28, 2021 12:30 | 2h 45m | 397 | 1,027 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 36 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lunenburg 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 ÷ 4,827 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. Lunenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lunenburg 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/lunenburg-county