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2020 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 698K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 540th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 6, 2020 12:30 | August 9, 2020 10:15 | 2d 21h | 11,525 | 135K |
| 2 | January 12, 2020 01:30 | January 13, 2020 11:30 | 1d 10h | 8,540 | 44K |
| 3 | December 16, 2020 17:15 | December 19, 2020 04:45 | 2d 11h | 6,944 | 167K |
| 4 | October 9, 2020 13:00 | October 9, 2020 17:30 | 4h 30m | 5,554 | 5,904 |
| 5 | December 14, 2020 20:30 | December 15, 2020 04:00 | 7h 30m | 4,547 | 1,809 |
| 6 | November 17, 2020 15:15 | November 18, 2020 17:45 | 1d 2h | 4,252 | 7,648 |
| 7 | July 21, 2020 19:45 | July 26, 2020 07:30 | 4d 11h | 3,804 | 52K |
| 8 | February 7, 2020 11:30 | February 8, 2020 16:00 | 1d 4h | 3,586 | 12K |
| 9 | January 19, 2020 03:30 | January 19, 2020 11:00 | 7h 30m | 3,418 | 3,882 |
| 10 | December 22, 2020 16:00 | December 23, 2020 21:45 | 1d 5h | 3,285 | 5,059 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 123 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.8 hrs | 2.16 | 2.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2020 | 8.4 hrs | 3.17 | 5.4 hrs | 2.32 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/virginia/albemarle-county