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2019 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 288K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 299th 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 Amherst 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 | July 21, 2019 19:15 | July 24, 2019 01:30 | 2d 6h | 5,322 | 57K |
| 2 | February 20, 2019 16:00 | February 23, 2019 00:30 | 2d 8h | 3,508 | 60K |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 08:30 | November 2, 2019 19:45 | 2d 11h | 2,546 | 30K |
| 4 | June 14, 2019 10:45 | June 14, 2019 20:00 | 9h 15m | 2,351 | 10K |
| 5 | March 22, 2019 18:00 | March 23, 2019 17:30 | 23h 30m | 2,223 | 9,993 |
| 6 | February 24, 2019 20:00 | February 27, 2019 03:00 | 2d 7h | 2,057 | 33K |
| 7 | April 5, 2019 17:00 | April 6, 2019 03:00 | 10h | 1,197 | 2,904 |
| 8 | June 7, 2019 22:45 | June 8, 2019 23:45 | 1d 1h | 1,144 | 3,715 |
| 9 | April 19, 2019 19:15 | April 20, 2019 21:00 | 1d 1h | 1,118 | 4,789 |
| 10 | April 26, 2019 17:45 | April 28, 2019 00:15 | 1d 6h | 1,066 | 4,718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 55 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Amherst 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 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county