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2021 Prince Edward County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Prince Edward County, VA went without power for an average of 78.7 hours, a total of 855K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 102nd 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 Prince Edward 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 07:45 | February 28, 2021 04:45 | 14d 21h | 8,428 | 818K |
| 2 | August 10, 2021 21:45 | August 11, 2021 14:45 | 17h | 994 | 1,902 |
| 3 | July 17, 2021 19:00 | July 18, 2021 18:00 | 23h | 942 | 2,848 |
| 4 | April 12, 2021 21:15 | April 12, 2021 22:30 | 1h 15m | 899 | 423 |
| 5 | September 20, 2021 14:00 | September 20, 2021 19:15 | 5h 15m | 884 | 950 |
| 6 | August 30, 2021 21:45 | August 31, 2021 06:00 | 8h 15m | 860 | 929 |
| 7 | July 1, 2021 18:15 | July 2, 2021 22:00 | 1d 3h | 821 | 2,724 |
| 8 | July 12, 2021 13:15 | July 13, 2021 00:30 | 11h 15m | 705 | 1,113 |
| 9 | October 27, 2021 12:45 | October 27, 2021 13:00 | 15m | 682 | 171 |
| 10 | October 7, 2021 10:15 | October 7, 2021 11:45 | 1h 30m | 563 | 845 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 50 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 Prince Edward 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.0 hrs | 3.44 | 4.2 hrs | 2.89 |
| 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 ÷ 10,853 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. Prince Edward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prince Edward 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/prince-edward-county