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2019 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 976th 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 Orange 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 | April 20, 2019 00:30 | April 22, 2019 12:00 | 2d 11h | 1,966 | 9,949 |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 22:45 | November 2, 2019 15:45 | 1d 17h | 1,804 | 11K |
| 3 | August 16, 2019 01:30 | August 17, 2019 06:30 | 1d 5h | 1,464 | 22K |
| 4 | May 30, 2019 23:15 | June 1, 2019 07:30 | 1d 8h | 1,450 | 5,448 |
| 5 | June 29, 2019 17:45 | June 30, 2019 06:00 | 12h 15m | 1,352 | 6,158 |
| 6 | May 25, 2019 19:15 | May 27, 2019 19:15 | 2d | 1,293 | 2,665 |
| 7 | March 2, 2019 14:30 | March 2, 2019 23:15 | 8h 45m | 1,236 | 1,941 |
| 8 | January 31, 2019 11:30 | January 31, 2019 18:45 | 7h 15m | 1,096 | 3,596 |
| 9 | January 20, 2019 01:30 | January 20, 2019 02:45 | 1h 15m | 943 | 993 |
| 10 | July 22, 2019 23:00 | July 23, 2019 23:45 | 1d | 731 | 2,143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 54 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2018 | 21.3 hrs | 2.99 | 2.8 hrs | 1.58 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2018 | 13.3 hrs | 3.94 | 2.9 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county