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2019 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 28.1 hours, a total of 299K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 126th 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 Botetourt 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 18:15 | February 28, 2019 05:45 | 3d 11h | 4,415 | 65K |
| 2 | February 20, 2019 08:15 | February 23, 2019 16:00 | 3d 7h | 3,384 | 51K |
| 3 | April 15, 2019 02:15 | April 16, 2019 21:00 | 1d 18h | 2,548 | 38K |
| 4 | May 26, 2019 03:00 | May 28, 2019 14:45 | 2d 11h | 1,970 | 14K |
| 5 | December 14, 2019 19:00 | December 15, 2019 05:15 | 10h 15m | 1,539 | 5,429 |
| 6 | July 11, 2019 10:30 | July 13, 2019 02:45 | 1d 16h | 1,483 | 5,161 |
| 7 | June 27, 2019 12:45 | June 28, 2019 16:00 | 1d 3h | 1,355 | 8,402 |
| 8 | June 7, 2019 21:15 | June 9, 2019 22:30 | 2d 1h | 1,280 | 4,377 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 23:15 | November 28, 2019 21:00 | 21h 45m | 1,268 | 3,985 |
| 10 | May 29, 2019 14:00 | May 31, 2019 14:45 | 2d | 1,070 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 70 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county