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2022 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 751st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Southampton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2022 13:15 | December 25, 2022 01:30 | 1d 12h | 1,400 | 4,067 |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 18:45 | October 1, 2022 23:30 | 1d 4h | 1,284 | 5,118 |
| 3 | April 26, 2022 21:30 | April 28, 2022 01:15 | 1d 3h | 859 | 5,076 |
| 4 | June 17, 2022 23:00 | June 18, 2022 08:00 | 9h | 838 | 3,956 |
| 5 | January 26, 2022 11:00 | January 26, 2022 12:15 | 1h 15m | 730 | 913 |
| 6 | July 29, 2022 01:15 | July 29, 2022 08:00 | 6h 45m | 698 | 2,806 |
| 7 | March 8, 2022 02:15 | March 8, 2022 08:00 | 5h 45m | 670 | 1,679 |
| 8 | July 1, 2022 13:30 | July 1, 2022 16:45 | 3h 15m | 666 | 2,163 |
| 9 | November 30, 2022 16:45 | November 30, 2022 20:30 | 3h 45m | 616 | 1,284 |
| 10 | July 24, 2022 21:45 | July 25, 2022 00:15 | 2h 30m | 566 | 1,277 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 31 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 2.38 | 3.2 hrs | 1.77 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2022 | 5.2 hrs | - | 1.5 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/virginia/southampton-county