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2019 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 620th 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 Russell 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 14, 2019 18:15 | April 16, 2019 03:45 | 1d 9h | 2,973 | 7,329 |
| 2 | June 17, 2019 19:00 | June 19, 2019 07:15 | 1d 12h | 2,165 | 3,128 |
| 3 | June 7, 2019 22:45 | June 10, 2019 01:15 | 2d 2h | 1,640 | 4,788 |
| 4 | September 13, 2019 19:15 | September 15, 2019 00:45 | 1d 5h | 999 | 3,155 |
| 5 | June 28, 2019 18:30 | June 30, 2019 00:30 | 1d 6h | 998 | 4,214 |
| 6 | August 17, 2019 20:45 | August 18, 2019 03:15 | 6h 30m | 965 | 2,688 |
| 7 | August 18, 2019 19:15 | August 19, 2019 06:00 | 10h 45m | 781 | 4,466 |
| 8 | March 22, 2019 19:00 | March 22, 2019 20:15 | 1h 15m | 641 | 801 |
| 9 | August 12, 2019 12:00 | August 14, 2019 01:00 | 1d 13h | 619 | 2,219 |
| 10 | May 21, 2019 12:15 | May 21, 2019 21:00 | 8h 45m | 603 | 706 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 62 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county