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2023 Brunswick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Brunswick County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1207th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2023
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 21, 2023 00:30 | July 21, 2023 03:30 | 3h | 1,543 | 1,035 |
| 2 | June 23, 2023 12:15 | June 23, 2023 17:15 | 5h | 1,498 | 3,091 |
| 3 | June 20, 2023 13:15 | June 21, 2023 02:45 | 13h 30m | 1,048 | 7,886 |
| 4 | September 23, 2023 00:15 | September 23, 2023 23:00 | 22h 45m | 987 | 6,613 |
| 5 | March 17, 2023 11:00 | March 17, 2023 20:15 | 9h 15m | 719 | 5,361 |
| 6 | July 6, 2023 11:00 | July 6, 2023 17:30 | 6h 30m | 454 | 2,271 |
| 7 | September 24, 2023 02:30 | September 24, 2023 16:15 | 13h 45m | 451 | 3,767 |
| 8 | January 15, 2023 13:15 | January 15, 2023 15:45 | 2h 30m | 447 | 1,116 |
| 9 | July 30, 2023 00:45 | July 30, 2023 08:15 | 7h 30m | 432 | 951 |
| 10 | September 12, 2023 18:15 | September 12, 2023 19:45 | 1h 30m | 432 | 647 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,778 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. Brunswick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brunswick County, VA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/virginia/brunswick-county