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2020 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 15.5 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 539th 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 Botetourt 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 | November 1, 2020 21:15 | November 3, 2020 23:00 | 2d 1h | 2,164 | 31K |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 05:30 | February 8, 2020 01:30 | 20h | 1,800 | 2,565 |
| 3 | December 6, 2020 21:15 | December 7, 2020 13:45 | 16h 30m | 1,749 | 11K |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 23:30 | December 26, 2020 00:45 | 1d 1h | 1,526 | 8,130 |
| 5 | July 22, 2020 23:00 | July 25, 2020 00:00 | 2d 1h | 1,353 | 5,247 |
| 6 | August 15, 2020 12:45 | August 16, 2020 03:45 | 15h | 1,252 | 2,359 |
| 7 | June 21, 2020 18:00 | June 22, 2020 22:00 | 1d 4h | 1,243 | 2,281 |
| 8 | June 24, 2020 23:00 | June 25, 2020 04:45 | 5h 45m | 1,231 | 2,872 |
| 9 | May 19, 2020 08:45 | May 22, 2020 21:45 | 3d 13h | 1,158 | 8,800 |
| 10 | January 12, 2020 04:45 | January 13, 2020 00:30 | 19h 45m | 1,072 | 2,799 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 51 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county