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2020 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 544th 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 Alleghany 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 | March 15, 2020 07:15 | March 15, 2020 11:15 | 4h | 1,063 | 2,545 |
| 2 | March 1, 2020 23:45 | March 2, 2020 17:00 | 17h 15m | 898 | 2,548 |
| 3 | April 10, 2020 07:45 | April 10, 2020 22:45 | 15h | 750 | 1,910 |
| 4 | March 30, 2020 15:15 | March 30, 2020 21:30 | 6h 15m | 667 | 1,154 |
| 5 | April 8, 2020 09:30 | April 9, 2020 00:00 | 14h 30m | 566 | 4,659 |
| 6 | August 26, 2020 00:45 | August 26, 2020 04:30 | 3h 45m | 557 | 1,559 |
| 7 | June 22, 2020 17:30 | June 22, 2020 21:00 | 3h 30m | 553 | 970 |
| 8 | November 1, 2020 18:00 | November 3, 2020 18:30 | 2d | 513 | 5,428 |
| 9 | July 6, 2020 01:45 | July 6, 2020 10:00 | 8h 15m | 482 | 2,178 |
| 10 | September 23, 2020 12:30 | September 23, 2020 12:45 | 15m | 482 | 121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county