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2019 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 15.5 hours, a total of 702K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 313th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 16, 2019 13:45 | January 16, 2019 19:00 | 5h 15m | 11,133 | 14K |
| 2 | August 19, 2019 12:30 | August 22, 2019 09:30 | 2d 21h | 9,300 | 85K |
| 3 | October 30, 2019 19:00 | November 3, 2019 04:30 | 3d 9h | 8,354 | 131K |
| 4 | September 11, 2019 19:00 | September 13, 2019 17:30 | 1d 22h | 7,509 | 23K |
| 5 | July 21, 2019 19:45 | July 24, 2019 21:00 | 3d 1h | 6,271 | 61K |
| 6 | September 28, 2019 16:15 | September 30, 2019 00:15 | 1d 8h | 5,848 | 15K |
| 7 | July 11, 2019 20:00 | July 13, 2019 14:15 | 1d 18h | 5,452 | 24K |
| 8 | July 17, 2019 19:15 | July 19, 2019 06:15 | 1d 11h | 5,387 | 21K |
| 9 | January 30, 2019 15:00 | January 31, 2019 20:00 | 1d 5h | 5,324 | 16K |
| 10 | June 17, 2019 13:15 | June 19, 2019 03:45 | 1d 14h | 5,224 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 125 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2018 | 21.3 hrs | 2.99 | 2.8 hrs | 1.58 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2018 | 13.3 hrs | 3.94 | 2.9 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/virginia/albemarle-county