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2020 Clarke County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clarke County, VA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1789th 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 Clarke 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 | September 1, 2020 14:45 | September 1, 2020 17:45 | 3h | 1,645 | 2,406 |
| 2 | July 22, 2020 18:30 | July 23, 2020 01:45 | 7h 15m | 1,074 | 2,415 |
| 3 | August 25, 2020 22:45 | August 26, 2020 07:45 | 9h | 558 | 2,403 |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 16:30 | November 15, 2020 19:30 | 3h | 471 | 904 |
| 5 | April 26, 2020 09:45 | April 26, 2020 13:45 | 4h | 399 | 919 |
| 6 | June 22, 2020 18:45 | June 23, 2020 07:15 | 12h 30m | 344 | 699 |
| 7 | May 10, 2020 21:30 | May 10, 2020 23:00 | 1h 30m | 314 | 315 |
| 8 | April 13, 2020 19:15 | April 14, 2020 02:15 | 7h | 238 | 440 |
| 9 | February 3, 2020 04:00 | February 3, 2020 05:00 | 1h | 232 | 232 |
| 10 | April 13, 2020 05:15 | April 13, 2020 15:30 | 10h 15m | 232 | 838 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Clarke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.8 hrs | 2.16 | 2.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| 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 ÷ 7,589 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. Clarke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clarke 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/clarke-county