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2021 Surry County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Surry County, VA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1103rd 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 Surry 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 | August 3, 2021 01:00 | August 3, 2021 04:30 | 3h 30m | 1,920 | 2,456 |
| 2 | February 18, 2021 17:00 | February 18, 2021 19:45 | 2h 45m | 1,558 | 483 |
| 3 | July 21, 2021 18:30 | July 21, 2021 20:00 | 1h 30m | 1,287 | 1,292 |
| 4 | July 3, 2021 15:30 | July 3, 2021 17:45 | 2h 15m | 705 | 1,586 |
| 5 | August 19, 2021 15:00 | August 19, 2021 23:30 | 8h 30m | 399 | 479 |
| 6 | February 13, 2021 14:45 | February 16, 2021 17:30 | 3d 2h | 375 | 2,404 |
| 7 | May 22, 2021 21:30 | May 22, 2021 22:00 | 30m | 306 | 79 |
| 8 | May 29, 2021 09:00 | May 29, 2021 19:00 | 10h | 297 | 350 |
| 9 | September 26, 2021 21:30 | September 27, 2021 02:15 | 4h 45m | 264 | 539 |
| 10 | January 28, 2021 16:15 | January 28, 2021 17:45 | 1h 30m | 231 | 347 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 21 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Surry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,816 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. Surry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Surry 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/surry-county