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2024 Surry County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Surry County, VA went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 824th 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 Surry 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 | March 11, 2024 16:15 | March 11, 2024 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,305 | 7,395 |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 21:30 | January 11, 2024 03:15 | 1d 5h | 1,068 | 11K |
| 3 | March 26, 2024 12:30 | March 26, 2024 14:00 | 1h 30m | 1,006 | 1,509 |
| 4 | August 3, 2024 21:45 | August 4, 2024 01:45 | 4h | 801 | 1,451 |
| 5 | November 5, 2024 14:30 | November 5, 2024 15:30 | 1h | 646 | 324 |
| 6 | November 5, 2024 17:15 | November 5, 2024 21:00 | 3h 45m | 646 | 662 |
| 7 | October 24, 2024 13:15 | October 24, 2024 18:15 | 5h | 645 | 1,105 |
| 8 | November 28, 2024 12:45 | November 28, 2024 15:30 | 2h 45m | 443 | 223 |
| 9 | May 10, 2024 20:00 | May 10, 2024 20:30 | 30m | 402 | 201 |
| 10 | August 3, 2024 00:00 | August 3, 2024 13:45 | 13h 45m | 385 | 1,027 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 21 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/surry-county