County annual report · FIPS 51019
2015 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 859th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2015
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 14, 2015 00:30 | July 15, 2015 16:15 | 1d 15h | 4,480 | 18K |
| 2 | July 1, 2015 03:00 | July 1, 2015 13:30 | 10h 30m | 2,144 | 7,219 |
| 3 | June 5, 2015 00:00 | June 6, 2015 00:00 | 1d | 1,474 | 8,199 |
| 4 | August 7, 2015 00:30 | August 7, 2015 16:00 | 15h 30m | 1,466 | 11K |
| 5 | September 26, 2015 05:45 | September 28, 2015 15:15 | 2d 9h | 1,222 | 7,966 |
| 6 | January 25, 2015 03:45 | January 25, 2015 04:00 | 15m | 1,199 | 300 |
| 7 | October 2, 2015 13:30 | October 4, 2015 23:15 | 2d 9h | 1,101 | 12K |
| 8 | February 10, 2015 17:30 | February 10, 2015 22:45 | 5h 15m | 1,030 | 4,134 |
| 9 | October 28, 2015 11:45 | October 29, 2015 17:15 | 1d 5h | 978 | 6,677 |
| 10 | June 1, 2015 18:45 | June 2, 2015 21:00 | 1d 2h | 949 | 2,965 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 78 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2015 | 11.7 hrs | 2.41 | 7.9 hrs | 2.21 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.0 hrs | 2.14 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.05 | 2.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, VA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/virginia/bedford-county