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2022 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 105th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1603rd 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 Sussex 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 | July 29, 2022 22:00 | July 30, 2022 11:30 | 13h 30m | 665 | 3,128 |
| 2 | August 9, 2022 12:30 | August 9, 2022 13:15 | 45m | 615 | 461 |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 13:45 | December 25, 2022 15:00 | 2d 1h | 466 | 2,025 |
| 4 | August 27, 2022 21:30 | August 28, 2022 00:45 | 3h 15m | 253 | 430 |
| 5 | June 17, 2022 23:15 | June 18, 2022 07:15 | 8h | 239 | 930 |
| 6 | March 12, 2022 14:45 | March 12, 2022 23:30 | 8h 45m | 217 | 449 |
| 7 | June 22, 2022 20:15 | June 24, 2022 00:45 | 1d 4h | 214 | 682 |
| 8 | August 4, 2022 20:00 | August 5, 2022 14:45 | 18h 45m | 214 | 988 |
| 9 | September 30, 2022 14:45 | September 30, 2022 17:15 | 2h 30m | 211 | 108 |
| 10 | July 21, 2022 21:00 | July 22, 2022 04:15 | 7h 15m | 210 | 761 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 21 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 18.3 hrs | 4.07 | 5.4 hrs | 2.79 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/sussex-county