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2019 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 10.9 hours, a total of 522K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 495th 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 Bedford 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 20, 2019 09:45 | February 23, 2019 03:00 | 2d 17h | 11,147 | 176K |
| 2 | July 2, 2019 11:45 | July 4, 2019 06:00 | 1d 18h | 5,260 | 35K |
| 3 | March 12, 2019 23:15 | March 13, 2019 04:45 | 5h 30m | 4,544 | 3,458 |
| 4 | September 11, 2019 12:45 | September 14, 2019 13:15 | 3d | 4,386 | 16K |
| 5 | April 5, 2019 02:15 | April 5, 2019 03:15 | 1h | 4,161 | 1,052 |
| 6 | February 1, 2019 15:30 | February 1, 2019 20:45 | 5h 15m | 3,412 | 3,418 |
| 7 | October 31, 2019 15:00 | November 3, 2019 19:30 | 3d 4h | 2,706 | 49K |
| 8 | February 24, 2019 16:15 | February 27, 2019 01:00 | 2d 8h | 2,357 | 16K |
| 9 | October 3, 2019 12:30 | October 4, 2019 01:00 | 12h 30m | 2,276 | 1,889 |
| 10 | July 21, 2019 17:45 | July 25, 2019 00:30 | 3d 6h | 2,232 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 104 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Bedford 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 |
| 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; 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, 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/bedford-county