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2019 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 295K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1233rd 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 Stafford 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 20:15 | May 25, 2019 02:00 | 1d 5h | 12,261 | 67K |
| 2 | August 2, 2019 05:30 | August 2, 2019 19:00 | 13h 30m | 5,226 | 18K |
| 3 | July 22, 2019 23:15 | July 23, 2019 13:00 | 13h 45m | 5,159 | 9,852 |
| 4 | January 20, 2019 15:30 | January 21, 2019 02:45 | 11h 15m | 5,100 | 7,144 |
| 5 | February 20, 2019 18:15 | February 21, 2019 20:15 | 1d 2h | 4,767 | 25K |
| 6 | November 23, 2019 11:45 | November 23, 2019 19:30 | 7h 45m | 4,526 | 3,515 |
| 7 | May 25, 2019 19:15 | May 27, 2019 06:15 | 1d 11h | 4,461 | 29K |
| 8 | April 26, 2019 19:00 | April 27, 2019 05:45 | 10h 45m | 4,119 | 7,748 |
| 9 | July 27, 2019 06:15 | July 27, 2019 10:30 | 4h 15m | 3,106 | 1,589 |
| 10 | August 20, 2019 20:45 | August 21, 2019 23:45 | 1d 3h | 2,564 | 4,742 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 74 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Stafford 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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county