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2019 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 18.9 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 236th 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 Giles 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 | October 27, 2019 13:45 | October 28, 2019 00:15 | 10h 30m | 2,900 | 4,466 |
| 2 | October 2, 2019 16:00 | October 2, 2019 19:45 | 3h 45m | 2,510 | 5,642 |
| 3 | May 25, 2019 19:45 | May 29, 2019 00:30 | 3d 4h | 1,780 | 3,872 |
| 4 | June 12, 2019 13:45 | June 12, 2019 15:15 | 1h 30m | 1,528 | 1,547 |
| 5 | February 24, 2019 13:00 | February 28, 2019 19:15 | 4d 6h | 1,082 | 24K |
| 6 | May 5, 2019 05:30 | May 5, 2019 17:15 | 11h 45m | 977 | 1,809 |
| 7 | August 27, 2019 08:15 | August 27, 2019 13:45 | 5h 30m | 953 | 3,815 |
| 8 | March 22, 2019 11:45 | March 23, 2019 00:15 | 12h 30m | 637 | 3,184 |
| 9 | June 11, 2019 04:45 | June 11, 2019 07:30 | 2h 45m | 569 | 999 |
| 10 | June 11, 2019 11:30 | June 11, 2019 18:30 | 7h | 568 | 1,721 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 49 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Giles 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 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county