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2023 Suffolk city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Suffolk city, VA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1690th 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 Suffolk city, 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 | January 14, 2023 23:15 | January 15, 2023 09:15 | 10h | 3,825 | 6,018 |
| 2 | July 8, 2023 00:15 | July 8, 2023 01:15 | 1h | 3,641 | 1,785 |
| 3 | August 10, 2023 09:15 | August 10, 2023 18:00 | 8h 45m | 3,635 | 2,746 |
| 4 | December 21, 2023 13:45 | December 21, 2023 15:00 | 1h 15m | 3,411 | 867 |
| 5 | September 28, 2023 19:45 | September 29, 2023 04:30 | 8h 45m | 3,223 | 2,861 |
| 6 | December 11, 2023 06:00 | December 11, 2023 17:45 | 11h 45m | 2,848 | 4,009 |
| 7 | January 16, 2023 19:30 | January 16, 2023 20:30 | 1h | 2,823 | 1,279 |
| 8 | April 20, 2023 13:00 | April 20, 2023 16:00 | 3h | 2,314 | 608 |
| 9 | August 29, 2023 11:15 | August 29, 2023 20:15 | 9h | 1,789 | 955 |
| 10 | August 15, 2023 15:30 | August 16, 2023 16:15 | 1d | 1,581 | 4,549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 64 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Suffolk city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 26,940 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. Suffolk city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk city, 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/suffolk-city