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2019 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 447K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 377th 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 Franklin 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 27, 2019 02:45 | 2d 8h | 10,041 | 93K |
| 2 | February 20, 2019 15:15 | February 23, 2019 02:00 | 2d 10h | 4,471 | 77K |
| 3 | May 2, 2019 13:00 | May 4, 2019 14:00 | 2d 1h | 4,041 | 25K |
| 4 | October 31, 2019 01:30 | November 3, 2019 22:00 | 3d 20h | 3,341 | 60K |
| 5 | April 26, 2019 10:45 | April 27, 2019 23:45 | 1d 13h | 2,434 | 11K |
| 6 | April 10, 2019 13:15 | April 10, 2019 19:45 | 6h 30m | 2,300 | 4,965 |
| 7 | August 20, 2019 18:30 | August 22, 2019 00:45 | 1d 6h | 2,291 | 8,064 |
| 8 | January 19, 2019 13:30 | January 19, 2019 15:45 | 2h 15m | 2,265 | 5,096 |
| 9 | August 17, 2019 15:00 | August 18, 2019 16:15 | 1d 1h | 2,228 | 3,137 |
| 10 | November 30, 2019 18:15 | December 1, 2019 00:30 | 6h 15m | 1,390 | 2,470 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 77 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Franklin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county