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2019 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 28.8 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 118th 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 Alleghany 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 | February 24, 2019 19:00 | February 26, 2019 22:00 | 2d 3h | 2,288 | 32K |
| 2 | March 18, 2019 18:30 | March 18, 2019 19:30 | 1h | 1,646 | 1,497 |
| 3 | January 4, 2019 10:45 | January 4, 2019 17:45 | 7h | 895 | 4,471 |
| 4 | July 4, 2019 21:15 | July 4, 2019 23:45 | 2h 30m | 744 | 1,466 |
| 5 | June 13, 2019 23:00 | June 14, 2019 13:15 | 14h 15m | 699 | 1,090 |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 18:45 | November 2, 2019 01:30 | 1d 6h | 690 | 6,870 |
| 7 | June 28, 2019 21:00 | June 29, 2019 04:30 | 7h 30m | 677 | 2,568 |
| 8 | July 9, 2019 10:00 | July 9, 2019 16:15 | 6h 15m | 636 | 2,193 |
| 9 | September 16, 2019 13:15 | September 16, 2019 19:00 | 5h 45m | 590 | 2,724 |
| 10 | February 20, 2019 09:00 | February 20, 2019 21:30 | 12h 30m | 569 | 4,249 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county