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2023 Surry County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Surry County, VA went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 813th 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 Surry 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 | March 18, 2023 02:00 | March 18, 2023 18:45 | 16h 45m | 1,572 | 1,310 |
| 2 | May 7, 2023 13:00 | May 8, 2023 03:00 | 14h | 1,154 | 1,740 |
| 3 | September 23, 2023 03:45 | September 23, 2023 23:00 | 19h 15m | 1,106 | 10K |
| 4 | June 27, 2023 05:15 | June 27, 2023 05:45 | 30m | 711 | 178 |
| 5 | May 2, 2023 13:00 | May 2, 2023 17:30 | 4h 30m | 581 | 175 |
| 6 | July 15, 2023 10:45 | July 15, 2023 19:15 | 8h 30m | 541 | 3,155 |
| 7 | June 5, 2023 20:00 | June 6, 2023 06:45 | 10h 45m | 344 | 1,822 |
| 8 | April 23, 2023 00:30 | April 23, 2023 08:30 | 8h | 298 | 2,380 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 00:15 | April 1, 2023 02:00 | 1h 45m | 297 | 520 |
| 10 | May 29, 2023 11:30 | May 29, 2023 13:00 | 1h 30m | 297 | 446 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 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 Surry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,816 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. Surry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Surry 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/surry-county