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2019 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 281st 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 Buchanan 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 | May 27, 2019 01:00 | May 29, 2019 01:45 | 2d | 2,812 | 52K |
| 2 | July 5, 2019 23:30 | July 6, 2019 00:00 | 30m | 1,657 | 601 |
| 3 | April 14, 2019 18:45 | April 16, 2019 22:30 | 2d 3h | 1,102 | 8,995 |
| 4 | March 6, 2019 07:30 | March 7, 2019 01:15 | 17h 45m | 1,096 | 8,489 |
| 5 | October 20, 2019 05:30 | October 20, 2019 19:00 | 13h 30m | 949 | 5,158 |
| 6 | June 6, 2019 21:15 | June 7, 2019 22:15 | 1d 1h | 935 | 9,349 |
| 7 | February 13, 2019 05:30 | February 14, 2019 01:15 | 19h 45m | 884 | 3,509 |
| 8 | April 29, 2019 11:45 | April 29, 2019 20:30 | 8h 45m | 877 | 5,703 |
| 9 | May 5, 2019 04:30 | May 5, 2019 20:15 | 15h 45m | 814 | 12K |
| 10 | August 4, 2019 12:15 | August 4, 2019 21:45 | 9h 30m | 795 | 7,546 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 46 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county