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2019 Galax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Galax city, VA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 113th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 2015th 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 Galax city, 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 14, 2019 21:15 | April 15, 2019 16:00 | 18h 45m | 685 | 2,479 |
| 2 | January 9, 2019 17:45 | January 10, 2019 00:15 | 6h 30m | 634 | 258 |
| 3 | April 29, 2019 16:30 | April 29, 2019 16:45 | 15m | 614 | 154 |
| 4 | October 22, 2019 22:30 | October 23, 2019 01:30 | 3h | 562 | 1,628 |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 20:00 | November 1, 2019 21:45 | 1d 1h | 247 | 488 |
| 6 | December 2, 2019 23:30 | December 3, 2019 03:15 | 3h 45m | 204 | 427 |
| 7 | June 28, 2019 14:30 | June 28, 2019 16:15 | 1h 45m | 118 | 67 |
| 8 | February 24, 2019 18:30 | February 26, 2019 13:45 | 1d 19h | 109 | 1,437 |
| 9 | March 23, 2019 13:30 | March 23, 2019 16:45 | 3h 15m | 107 | 348 |
| 10 | January 13, 2019 10:15 | January 14, 2019 04:15 | 18h | 77 | 345 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 9 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Galax city 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 |
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 ÷ 5,393 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. Galax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Galax city, 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/galax-city