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2021 Suffolk city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Suffolk city, VA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1771st 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 Suffolk city, 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 | October 4, 2021 14:30 | October 4, 2021 17:30 | 3h | 5,496 | 6,530 |
| 2 | August 18, 2021 14:00 | August 19, 2021 09:15 | 19h 15m | 2,317 | 2,846 |
| 3 | August 14, 2021 23:15 | August 16, 2021 02:00 | 1d 2h | 2,312 | 5,665 |
| 4 | January 23, 2021 21:15 | January 24, 2021 10:15 | 13h | 2,032 | 6,473 |
| 5 | February 7, 2021 09:45 | February 7, 2021 16:45 | 7h | 1,637 | 523 |
| 6 | September 23, 2021 18:15 | September 24, 2021 00:00 | 5h 45m | 1,620 | 531 |
| 7 | July 8, 2021 23:00 | July 9, 2021 20:30 | 21h 30m | 1,557 | 11K |
| 8 | July 26, 2021 20:45 | July 28, 2021 02:00 | 1d 5h | 1,314 | 2,956 |
| 9 | September 20, 2021 12:00 | September 20, 2021 18:30 | 6h 30m | 1,259 | 331 |
| 10 | April 9, 2021 22:00 | April 9, 2021 22:45 | 45m | 1,114 | 836 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 52 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Suffolk city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 26,940 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. Suffolk city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk city, 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/suffolk-city