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2025 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 1224th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sussex County, 2025
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 18, 2025 23:30 | July 20, 2025 04:45 | 1d 5h | 1,219 | 5,883 |
| 2 | May 5, 2025 18:15 | May 6, 2025 05:15 | 11h | 583 | 1,421 |
| 3 | September 16, 2025 08:15 | September 16, 2025 09:15 | 1h | 548 | 420 |
| 4 | July 8, 2025 22:15 | July 10, 2025 16:15 | 1d 18h | 448 | 6,528 |
| 5 | May 6, 2025 13:15 | May 6, 2025 18:00 | 4h 45m | 432 | 281 |
| 6 | August 14, 2025 22:30 | August 15, 2025 00:00 | 1h 30m | 418 | 373 |
| 7 | May 16, 2025 23:00 | May 17, 2025 10:30 | 11h 30m | 365 | 1,649 |
| 8 | July 15, 2025 04:45 | July 16, 2025 05:30 | 1d | 249 | 1,366 |
| 9 | November 22, 2025 17:00 | November 22, 2025 19:15 | 2h 15m | 217 | 381 |
| 10 | May 11, 2025 21:30 | May 11, 2025 22:15 | 45m | 213 | 160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 20 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/virginia/sussex-county