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2019 Lee County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lee County, VA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1363rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee 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 | August 16, 2019 16:30 | August 16, 2019 21:45 | 5h 15m | 2,299 | 3,531 |
| 2 | May 5, 2019 11:30 | May 5, 2019 13:30 | 2h | 896 | 898 |
| 3 | September 13, 2019 14:00 | September 13, 2019 16:45 | 2h 45m | 787 | 985 |
| 4 | April 18, 2019 13:15 | April 18, 2019 17:30 | 4h 15m | 753 | 572 |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 13:45 | November 1, 2019 03:45 | 14h | 664 | 1,291 |
| 6 | July 30, 2019 14:30 | July 31, 2019 05:30 | 15h | 528 | 819 |
| 7 | October 15, 2019 14:00 | October 17, 2019 22:00 | 2d 8h | 451 | 3,003 |
| 8 | June 5, 2019 16:15 | June 5, 2019 18:30 | 2h 15m | 430 | 515 |
| 9 | August 28, 2019 17:15 | August 28, 2019 17:30 | 15m | 399 | 100 |
| 10 | April 16, 2019 17:45 | April 16, 2019 19:15 | 1h 30m | 395 | 402 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 32 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 88 min | 1.44 |
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 ÷ 7,474 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. Lee County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county