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2021 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 787th 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 Southampton 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 | March 19, 2021 20:45 | March 20, 2021 01:15 | 4h 30m | 4,453 | 12K |
| 2 | July 26, 2021 20:45 | July 27, 2021 08:30 | 11h 45m | 2,615 | 2,993 |
| 3 | October 4, 2021 14:30 | October 4, 2021 20:00 | 5h 30m | 1,852 | 1,518 |
| 4 | March 9, 2021 20:30 | March 9, 2021 21:15 | 45m | 1,394 | 655 |
| 5 | May 25, 2021 23:45 | May 26, 2021 00:15 | 30m | 1,161 | 291 |
| 6 | January 27, 2021 13:15 | January 27, 2021 21:45 | 8h 30m | 1,025 | 3,462 |
| 7 | February 10, 2021 15:45 | February 10, 2021 16:15 | 30m | 713 | 179 |
| 8 | August 31, 2021 01:15 | August 31, 2021 08:45 | 7h 30m | 585 | 1,126 |
| 9 | February 21, 2021 19:45 | February 21, 2021 23:15 | 3h 30m | 493 | 559 |
| 10 | September 8, 2021 08:30 | September 8, 2021 11:00 | 2h 30m | 487 | 1,218 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 36 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 Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 33.7 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.43 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | - | 5.0 hrs | - |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,783 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. Southampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Southampton 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/southampton-county