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2020 Buena Vista city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Buena Vista city, VA went without power for an average of 6118.0 hours, a total of 6,118 customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 129 Virginia counties and 2nd 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 Buena Vista city, 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 | January 25, 2020 01:30 | January 25, 2020 07:15 | 5h 45m | 1,373 | 2,011 |
| 2 | December 28, 2020 20:15 | December 28, 2020 22:00 | 1h 45m | 947 | 1,109 |
| 3 | May 11, 2020 10:30 | May 11, 2020 11:30 | 1h | 505 | 505 |
| 4 | April 30, 2020 10:45 | April 30, 2020 17:30 | 6h 45m | 144 | 212 |
| 5 | July 30, 2020 13:15 | July 30, 2020 16:15 | 3h | 135 | 183 |
| 6 | December 24, 2020 10:30 | December 24, 2020 12:00 | 1h 30m | 94 | 141 |
| 7 | April 1, 2020 05:00 | April 1, 2020 07:30 | 2h 30m | 69 | 89 |
| 8 | May 7, 2020 14:30 | May 7, 2020 17:15 | 2h 45m | 67 | 184 |
| 9 | May 23, 2020 15:00 | May 23, 2020 15:45 | 45m | 67 | 50 |
| 10 | October 29, 2020 19:00 | October 29, 2020 21:15 | 2h 15m | 67 | 151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Buena Vista city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 1 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. Buena Vista city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/virginia/buena-vista-city