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2019 Nelson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Nelson County, VA went without power for an average of 27.3 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 135th 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 Nelson 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 30, 2019 23:00 | November 3, 2019 01:00 | 3d 2h | 3,714 | 66K |
| 2 | November 4, 2019 07:45 | November 4, 2019 08:00 | 15m | 1,489 | 372 |
| 3 | June 26, 2019 17:15 | June 26, 2019 18:00 | 45m | 1,265 | 935 |
| 4 | September 8, 2019 07:15 | September 8, 2019 12:00 | 4h 45m | 1,203 | 738 |
| 5 | August 17, 2019 00:45 | August 18, 2019 03:45 | 1d 3h | 1,118 | 1,597 |
| 6 | July 31, 2019 20:15 | August 1, 2019 15:15 | 19h | 1,069 | 1,442 |
| 7 | June 10, 2019 07:00 | June 10, 2019 13:45 | 6h 45m | 1,068 | 2,174 |
| 8 | July 21, 2019 18:30 | July 23, 2019 21:15 | 2d 2h | 966 | 13K |
| 9 | February 23, 2019 03:15 | February 23, 2019 14:30 | 11h 15m | 866 | 1,038 |
| 10 | February 24, 2019 17:00 | February 26, 2019 16:30 | 1d 23h | 794 | 6,571 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 54 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Nelson 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2018 | 13.3 hrs | 3.94 | 2.9 hrs | 1.98 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2018 | 9.5 hrs | 2.25 | 3.3 hrs | 1.73 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,606 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county