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2021 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 17.9 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 476th 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 Sussex 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 09:30 | February 24, 2021 00:45 | 10d 15h | 1,541 | 64K |
| 2 | December 7, 2021 14:45 | December 7, 2021 23:15 | 8h 30m | 1,274 | 1,219 |
| 3 | May 30, 2021 03:45 | May 30, 2021 10:15 | 6h 30m | 1,082 | 2,150 |
| 4 | December 18, 2021 19:00 | December 19, 2021 02:15 | 7h 15m | 616 | 3,269 |
| 5 | August 12, 2021 12:00 | August 12, 2021 12:15 | 15m | 586 | 147 |
| 6 | July 8, 2021 22:30 | July 9, 2021 02:00 | 3h 30m | 326 | 533 |
| 7 | May 29, 2021 09:00 | May 30, 2021 00:30 | 15h 30m | 260 | 1,972 |
| 8 | July 26, 2021 21:00 | July 27, 2021 19:30 | 22h 30m | 219 | 312 |
| 9 | August 6, 2021 22:00 | August 7, 2021 03:00 | 5h | 182 | 446 |
| 10 | November 16, 2021 18:00 | November 16, 2021 18:30 | 30m | 169 | 85 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county