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2020 Charlottesville city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Charlottesville city, VA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1625th 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 Charlottesville 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 | October 9, 2020 13:00 | October 9, 2020 15:15 | 2h 15m | 4,332 | 4,823 |
| 2 | April 24, 2020 08:45 | April 24, 2020 15:15 | 6h 30m | 3,658 | 3,034 |
| 3 | December 16, 2020 19:30 | December 18, 2020 18:15 | 1d 22h | 2,461 | 29K |
| 4 | December 14, 2020 20:30 | December 15, 2020 05:00 | 8h 30m | 2,228 | 3,812 |
| 5 | February 3, 2020 18:30 | February 3, 2020 22:15 | 3h 45m | 1,404 | 1,121 |
| 6 | July 22, 2020 02:00 | July 24, 2020 02:45 | 2d | 1,292 | 11K |
| 7 | October 9, 2020 17:00 | October 9, 2020 17:30 | 30m | 883 | 235 |
| 8 | April 10, 2020 14:30 | April 10, 2020 17:15 | 2h 45m | 482 | 1,151 |
| 9 | August 6, 2020 21:45 | August 7, 2020 23:45 | 1d 2h | 451 | 1,694 |
| 10 | November 17, 2020 19:00 | November 17, 2020 22:30 | 3h 30m | 437 | 288 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Charlottesville 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 ÷ 20,605 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. Charlottesville city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlottesville 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/charlottesville-city