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2019 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 316K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1020th 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 Lynchburg 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 | July 21, 2019 19:00 | July 23, 2019 22:45 | 2d 3h | 5,816 | 105K |
| 2 | May 29, 2019 14:45 | May 30, 2019 01:45 | 11h | 3,944 | 4,132 |
| 3 | December 19, 2019 12:00 | December 20, 2019 00:00 | 12h | 3,942 | 29K |
| 4 | February 20, 2019 09:15 | February 22, 2019 20:45 | 2d 11h | 2,576 | 40K |
| 5 | February 24, 2019 19:15 | February 27, 2019 13:15 | 2d 18h | 1,940 | 12K |
| 6 | March 21, 2019 18:00 | March 21, 2019 22:15 | 4h 15m | 1,870 | 3,661 |
| 7 | November 12, 2019 17:45 | November 13, 2019 05:00 | 11h 15m | 1,757 | 4,837 |
| 8 | September 11, 2019 13:15 | September 12, 2019 13:45 | 1d | 1,549 | 4,697 |
| 9 | January 30, 2019 15:45 | January 31, 2019 01:15 | 9h 30m | 1,419 | 2,679 |
| 10 | November 19, 2019 23:45 | November 20, 2019 08:45 | 9h | 1,389 | 2,591 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 61 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Lynchburg 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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg 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/lynchburg-city