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2020 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 294K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1221st 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 Bedford 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 | February 25, 2020 18:45 | February 25, 2020 19:15 | 30m | 3,750 | 1,875 |
| 2 | March 6, 2020 12:00 | March 6, 2020 19:00 | 7h | 3,748 | 1,019 |
| 3 | March 6, 2020 04:15 | March 6, 2020 05:15 | 1h | 3,740 | 1,987 |
| 4 | April 30, 2020 02:30 | April 30, 2020 18:30 | 16h | 3,712 | 4,658 |
| 5 | December 1, 2020 12:00 | December 2, 2020 08:45 | 20h 45m | 3,379 | 14K |
| 6 | April 8, 2020 21:45 | April 11, 2020 21:15 | 2d 23h | 3,090 | 37K |
| 7 | March 4, 2020 13:45 | March 4, 2020 22:45 | 9h | 2,720 | 1,875 |
| 8 | March 1, 2020 13:00 | March 1, 2020 19:15 | 6h 15m | 2,583 | 1,036 |
| 9 | April 12, 2020 23:00 | April 13, 2020 23:00 | 1d | 2,147 | 13K |
| 10 | November 20, 2020 14:00 | November 20, 2020 17:45 | 3h 45m | 1,937 | 2,020 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 105 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 2.90 | 4.4 hrs | 2.60 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.38 | 2.4 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county