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2020 Craig County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Craig County, VA went without power for an average of 19.1 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 452nd 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 Craig 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 | December 17, 2020 01:30 | December 17, 2020 08:00 | 6h 30m | 745 | 3,179 |
| 2 | December 22, 2020 21:45 | December 23, 2020 16:15 | 18h 30m | 720 | 905 |
| 3 | October 29, 2020 20:15 | October 30, 2020 00:45 | 4h 30m | 468 | 666 |
| 4 | November 1, 2020 17:45 | November 2, 2020 22:45 | 1d 5h | 433 | 2,767 |
| 5 | December 16, 2020 20:00 | December 17, 2020 00:30 | 4h 30m | 259 | 414 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 18:15 | October 29, 2020 19:30 | 1h 15m | 258 | 307 |
| 7 | October 6, 2020 16:00 | October 6, 2020 20:00 | 4h | 206 | 771 |
| 8 | December 25, 2020 03:15 | December 25, 2020 17:45 | 14h 30m | 186 | 657 |
| 9 | July 31, 2020 23:30 | August 1, 2020 03:30 | 4h | 182 | 700 |
| 10 | August 4, 2020 09:15 | August 4, 2020 13:00 | 3h 45m | 182 | 644 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 20 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Craig 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 |
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 ÷ 1,256 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. Craig County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Craig 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/craig-county