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2024 Cumberland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cumberland County, VA went without power for an average of 12.4 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 767th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cumberland County, 2024
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 17, 2024 22:15 | July 18, 2024 22:30 | 1d | 1,644 | 8,078 |
| 2 | July 1, 2024 15:30 | July 1, 2024 16:45 | 1h 15m | 1,337 | 1,670 |
| 3 | February 13, 2024 19:00 | February 14, 2024 00:15 | 5h 15m | 1,011 | 497 |
| 4 | June 27, 2024 05:00 | June 27, 2024 11:45 | 6h 45m | 992 | 1,030 |
| 5 | June 29, 2024 20:15 | June 30, 2024 05:15 | 9h | 809 | 3,740 |
| 6 | April 8, 2024 14:45 | April 8, 2024 19:45 | 5h | 629 | 512 |
| 7 | April 12, 2024 15:45 | April 13, 2024 01:30 | 9h 45m | 552 | 1,252 |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 21:00 | January 10, 2024 22:45 | 1d 1h | 486 | 4,859 |
| 9 | July 31, 2024 15:15 | July 31, 2024 19:00 | 3h 45m | 447 | 311 |
| 10 | September 30, 2024 21:15 | October 1, 2024 18:30 | 21h 15m | 393 | 2,920 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 39 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 Cumberland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 6.5 hrs | 3.12 | 5.2 hrs | 2.81 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.8 hrs | 2.61 | 5.8 hrs | 2.61 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/virginia/cumberland-county