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2024 Southampton County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Southampton County, VA went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1127th 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 Southampton 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 | September 4, 2024 15:30 | September 4, 2024 19:30 | 4h | 2,659 | 2,315 |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 23:45 | April 4, 2024 06:00 | 6h 15m | 1,117 | 2,476 |
| 3 | November 21, 2024 03:45 | November 21, 2024 09:30 | 5h 45m | 700 | 1,193 |
| 4 | September 27, 2024 18:30 | September 28, 2024 05:45 | 11h 15m | 625 | 1,367 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 19:30 | January 11, 2024 04:00 | 1d 8h | 563 | 8,650 |
| 6 | July 18, 2024 19:30 | July 19, 2024 05:15 | 9h 45m | 546 | 1,174 |
| 7 | August 19, 2024 00:15 | August 19, 2024 10:30 | 10h 15m | 499 | 2,597 |
| 8 | November 28, 2024 17:00 | November 28, 2024 19:45 | 2h 45m | 421 | 556 |
| 9 | May 9, 2024 02:00 | May 9, 2024 05:30 | 3h 30m | 393 | 1,160 |
| 10 | May 18, 2024 22:30 | May 19, 2024 01:30 | 3h | 392 | 1,157 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.50 | 4.6 hrs | 2.23 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.7 hrs | - | 1.5 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 2024; 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, 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/southampton-county