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2023 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 742nd 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 Cumberland 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 | June 16, 2023 17:30 | June 17, 2023 23:15 | 1d 5h | 1,379 | 7,803 |
| 2 | September 23, 2023 15:15 | September 24, 2023 15:00 | 23h 45m | 1,098 | 3,706 |
| 3 | July 29, 2023 22:45 | July 30, 2023 15:30 | 16h 45m | 609 | 2,400 |
| 4 | June 21, 2023 15:45 | June 21, 2023 23:30 | 7h 45m | 596 | 1,038 |
| 5 | July 7, 2023 22:30 | July 9, 2023 08:45 | 1d 10h | 470 | 5,016 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 19:00 | April 2, 2023 18:45 | 23h 45m | 435 | 3,353 |
| 7 | July 29, 2023 00:00 | July 29, 2023 09:30 | 9h 30m | 342 | 1,671 |
| 8 | April 7, 2023 17:15 | April 7, 2023 18:30 | 1h 15m | 332 | 415 |
| 9 | May 29, 2023 15:00 | May 29, 2023 19:00 | 4h | 308 | 803 |
| 10 | August 31, 2023 07:00 | August 31, 2023 16:15 | 9h 15m | 292 | 1,902 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 29 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2023 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 |
| 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 ÷ 3,604 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county