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2023 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 825th 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 Southampton 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 3, 2023 19:45 | July 4, 2023 16:15 | 20h 30m | 3,355 | 9,541 |
| 2 | September 8, 2023 23:15 | September 10, 2023 03:30 | 1d 4h | 2,636 | 13K |
| 3 | December 11, 2023 04:30 | December 11, 2023 17:15 | 12h 45m | 715 | 4,602 |
| 4 | September 23, 2023 00:45 | September 23, 2023 23:45 | 23h | 623 | 3,115 |
| 5 | June 22, 2023 18:30 | June 23, 2023 00:30 | 6h | 522 | 1,480 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 18:30 | April 2, 2023 02:45 | 8h 15m | 440 | 2,381 |
| 7 | January 13, 2023 20:15 | January 13, 2023 21:00 | 45m | 388 | 291 |
| 8 | November 28, 2023 03:15 | November 28, 2023 06:15 | 3h | 378 | 604 |
| 9 | November 21, 2023 23:30 | November 22, 2023 08:00 | 8h 30m | 319 | 585 |
| 10 | August 15, 2023 19:15 | August 16, 2023 03:45 | 8h 30m | 214 | 796 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | - | 1.9 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; 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, 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/southampton-county