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2019 Bath County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bath County, VA went without power for an average of 28.2 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 121st 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 Bath 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 19:00 | 2d | 3,039 | 30K |
| 2 | April 15, 2019 16:00 | April 15, 2019 21:45 | 5h 45m | 2,454 | 1,533 |
| 3 | April 7, 2019 11:45 | April 8, 2019 12:15 | 1d | 605 | 15K |
| 4 | April 9, 2019 20:15 | April 9, 2019 20:30 | 15m | 603 | 151 |
| 5 | April 7, 2019 02:00 | April 7, 2019 10:00 | 8h | 602 | 4,585 |
| 6 | August 2, 2019 14:30 | August 2, 2019 19:45 | 5h 15m | 595 | 414 |
| 7 | October 20, 2019 12:45 | October 20, 2019 17:30 | 4h 45m | 441 | 1,404 |
| 8 | July 11, 2019 18:30 | July 12, 2019 01:15 | 6h 45m | 397 | 1,632 |
| 9 | June 8, 2019 09:45 | June 8, 2019 22:00 | 12h 15m | 381 | 1,538 |
| 10 | September 26, 2019 19:30 | September 26, 2019 22:45 | 3h 15m | 312 | 547 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 25 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 Bath 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,010 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. Bath County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bath 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/bath-county