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2020 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 141K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 725th 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 Buchanan 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 | October 18, 2020 12:15 | October 18, 2020 20:45 | 8h 30m | 1,867 | 16K |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 16:45 | November 16, 2020 20:30 | 1d 3h | 1,460 | 5,184 |
| 3 | August 13, 2020 21:30 | August 15, 2020 05:00 | 1d 7h | 1,429 | 4,213 |
| 4 | July 7, 2020 18:15 | July 8, 2020 17:30 | 23h 15m | 971 | 3,500 |
| 5 | August 31, 2020 21:45 | September 1, 2020 22:30 | 1d | 954 | 13K |
| 6 | May 23, 2020 18:30 | May 24, 2020 00:00 | 5h 30m | 798 | 1,869 |
| 7 | June 9, 2020 11:15 | June 9, 2020 11:30 | 15m | 794 | 199 |
| 8 | July 28, 2020 12:15 | July 29, 2020 16:00 | 1d 3h | 779 | 2,015 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 02:00 | April 16, 2020 00:45 | 2d 22h | 668 | 17K |
| 10 | May 25, 2020 11:30 | May 26, 2020 01:45 | 14h 15m | 665 | 3,132 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county