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2023 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1633rd 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 Sussex 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 21:30 | June 17, 2023 22:30 | 1d 1h | 1,002 | 487 |
| 2 | October 21, 2023 06:00 | October 21, 2023 10:00 | 4h | 834 | 2,706 |
| 3 | December 13, 2023 16:30 | December 13, 2023 18:45 | 2h 15m | 624 | 937 |
| 4 | April 7, 2023 01:45 | April 7, 2023 10:00 | 8h 15m | 617 | 4,931 |
| 5 | October 11, 2023 02:30 | October 11, 2023 03:45 | 1h 15m | 586 | 303 |
| 6 | October 10, 2023 18:00 | October 10, 2023 21:15 | 3h 15m | 521 | 432 |
| 7 | May 8, 2023 00:30 | May 8, 2023 03:30 | 3h | 250 | 450 |
| 8 | July 10, 2023 14:00 | July 10, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 192 | 48 |
| 9 | September 23, 2023 12:15 | September 23, 2023 17:45 | 5h 30m | 186 | 289 |
| 10 | March 29, 2023 08:15 | March 29, 2023 21:00 | 12h 45m | 166 | 594 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 19 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Sussex 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (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 ÷ 4,419 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county