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2019 Rockbridge County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rockbridge County, VA went without power for an average of 15.6 hours, a total of 182K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 311th 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 Rockbridge 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 | May 23, 2019 17:15 | May 23, 2019 19:15 | 2h | 2,108 | 910 |
| 2 | May 29, 2019 20:15 | May 31, 2019 03:30 | 1d 7h | 1,865 | 24K |
| 3 | February 24, 2019 18:30 | February 26, 2019 21:15 | 2d 2h | 1,737 | 25K |
| 4 | February 20, 2019 09:15 | February 22, 2019 00:00 | 1d 14h | 1,523 | 26K |
| 5 | August 1, 2019 22:45 | August 2, 2019 20:30 | 21h 45m | 1,498 | 7,224 |
| 6 | June 28, 2019 20:30 | July 1, 2019 04:30 | 2d 8h | 1,137 | 6,042 |
| 7 | September 2, 2019 17:00 | September 2, 2019 23:00 | 6h | 862 | 2,566 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 20:15 | November 1, 2019 23:15 | 1d 3h | 835 | 6,717 |
| 9 | November 28, 2019 04:45 | November 28, 2019 10:00 | 5h 15m | 774 | 2,022 |
| 10 | September 24, 2019 18:45 | September 24, 2019 21:30 | 2h 45m | 762 | 764 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Rockbridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2018 | 9.5 hrs | 2.25 | 3.3 hrs | 1.73 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 11,617 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. Rockbridge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockbridge 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/rockbridge-county