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2024 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1245th 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 Sussex 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 1, 2024 21:45 | September 2, 2024 10:45 | 13h | 1,048 | 3,380 |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 19:30 | January 11, 2024 04:00 | 1d 8h | 691 | 5,251 |
| 3 | February 23, 2024 11:45 | February 23, 2024 13:00 | 1h 15m | 621 | 327 |
| 4 | March 20, 2024 17:30 | March 20, 2024 21:30 | 4h | 590 | 1,682 |
| 5 | March 21, 2024 21:30 | March 22, 2024 02:45 | 5h 15m | 544 | 789 |
| 6 | August 3, 2024 16:30 | August 4, 2024 21:45 | 1d 5h | 359 | 4,165 |
| 7 | May 15, 2024 10:45 | May 15, 2024 21:15 | 10h 30m | 357 | 3,738 |
| 8 | September 22, 2024 16:00 | September 22, 2024 21:30 | 5h 30m | 280 | 1,303 |
| 9 | June 7, 2024 21:30 | June 7, 2024 23:45 | 2h 15m | 250 | 349 |
| 10 | March 22, 2024 05:30 | March 22, 2024 06:15 | 45m | 196 | 147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 25 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 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/sussex-county