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2019 Montgomery County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Montgomery County, VA went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 233K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 787th 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 Montgomery 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 | February 24, 2019 17:00 | February 27, 2019 21:00 | 3d 4h | 2,594 | 34K |
| 2 | February 20, 2019 23:00 | February 24, 2019 00:45 | 3d 1h | 2,143 | 32K |
| 3 | August 4, 2019 12:45 | August 4, 2019 19:45 | 7h | 2,006 | 7,004 |
| 4 | October 3, 2019 14:45 | October 4, 2019 00:30 | 9h 45m | 1,713 | 1,450 |
| 5 | June 8, 2019 01:45 | June 9, 2019 02:30 | 1d | 1,687 | 5,516 |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 17:30 | November 2, 2019 15:30 | 1d 22h | 1,613 | 9,750 |
| 7 | September 10, 2019 18:45 | September 10, 2019 23:00 | 4h 15m | 1,496 | 392 |
| 8 | May 18, 2019 02:15 | May 18, 2019 11:30 | 9h 15m | 1,416 | 9,638 |
| 9 | May 17, 2019 18:45 | May 18, 2019 01:15 | 6h 30m | 1,413 | 5,262 |
| 10 | January 28, 2019 13:30 | January 28, 2019 17:30 | 4h | 1,305 | 682 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 73 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Montgomery 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 |
| City of Radford - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Virginia Tech Electric Service | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,573 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county