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2019 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 517th 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 Lancaster 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 | June 7, 2019 04:00 | June 7, 2019 11:30 | 7h 30m | 1,883 | 4,948 |
| 2 | July 30, 2019 01:15 | July 30, 2019 05:15 | 4h | 1,333 | 1,601 |
| 3 | April 16, 2019 13:15 | April 16, 2019 16:15 | 3h | 1,332 | 682 |
| 4 | September 6, 2019 06:00 | September 7, 2019 00:15 | 18h 15m | 1,295 | 12K |
| 5 | January 1, 2019 09:00 | January 1, 2019 14:15 | 5h 15m | 1,226 | 5,613 |
| 6 | July 14, 2019 01:15 | July 14, 2019 08:15 | 7h | 915 | 6,172 |
| 7 | August 3, 2019 23:45 | August 4, 2019 00:45 | 1h | 871 | 778 |
| 8 | April 28, 2019 23:45 | April 29, 2019 09:15 | 9h 30m | 630 | 831 |
| 9 | November 1, 2019 00:45 | November 1, 2019 21:00 | 20h 15m | 454 | 2,385 |
| 10 | April 21, 2019 17:00 | April 21, 2019 21:00 | 4h | 419 | 931 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 28 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/virginia/lancaster-county