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2019 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 19.0 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 233rd 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 Buckingham 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 | April 15, 2019 04:30 | April 15, 2019 20:15 | 15h 45m | 2,344 | 9,841 |
| 2 | January 13, 2019 13:00 | January 14, 2019 21:15 | 1d 8h | 2,101 | 10K |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 16:00 | November 2, 2019 03:00 | 1d 11h | 2,065 | 23K |
| 4 | April 26, 2019 17:00 | April 27, 2019 08:00 | 15h | 1,513 | 6,516 |
| 5 | November 4, 2019 07:45 | November 4, 2019 08:00 | 15m | 1,486 | 372 |
| 6 | October 16, 2019 13:15 | October 16, 2019 21:30 | 8h 15m | 1,400 | 8,048 |
| 7 | February 20, 2019 18:00 | February 22, 2019 02:00 | 1d 8h | 912 | 17K |
| 8 | July 22, 2019 22:00 | July 23, 2019 16:15 | 18h 15m | 804 | 2,146 |
| 9 | January 30, 2019 14:45 | January 30, 2019 22:30 | 7h 45m | 715 | 918 |
| 10 | February 24, 2019 22:45 | February 25, 2019 07:45 | 9h | 650 | 2,847 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 29 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Buckingham 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county