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2018 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 15.0 hours, a total of 720K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 372nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1, 2018 16:30 | October 2, 2018 04:15 | 11h 45m | 13,169 | 12K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 02:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 23h | 12,288 | 354K |
| 3 | October 11, 2018 16:30 | October 15, 2018 22:30 | 4d 6h | 9,480 | 110K |
| 4 | December 9, 2018 16:45 | December 11, 2018 17:00 | 2d | 5,344 | 32K |
| 5 | June 12, 2018 13:45 | June 12, 2018 21:15 | 7h 30m | 2,370 | 4,784 |
| 6 | December 26, 2018 22:00 | December 27, 2018 21:45 | 23h 45m | 1,911 | 3,325 |
| 7 | November 14, 2018 15:15 | November 18, 2018 20:45 | 4d 5h | 1,833 | 9,521 |
| 8 | August 2, 2018 15:30 | August 5, 2018 01:15 | 2d 9h | 1,582 | 11K |
| 9 | June 27, 2018 22:45 | June 29, 2018 12:45 | 1d 14h | 1,476 | 15K |
| 10 | May 17, 2018 00:00 | May 24, 2018 02:30 | 7d 2h | 1,440 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 96 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 40.6 hrs | 4.32 | 5.1 hrs | 2.55 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 1.50 | 88 min | - |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/bedford-county