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2020 Culpeper County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Culpeper County, VA went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 793rd 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 Culpeper 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 22, 2020 00:15 | October 22, 2020 03:15 | 3h | 10,361 | 11K |
| 2 | December 16, 2020 20:45 | December 19, 2020 07:15 | 2d 10h | 9,706 | 173K |
| 3 | May 27, 2020 00:45 | May 27, 2020 04:00 | 3h 15m | 2,723 | 2,172 |
| 4 | July 20, 2020 20:15 | July 21, 2020 04:30 | 8h 15m | 2,608 | 8,509 |
| 5 | December 24, 2020 22:15 | December 25, 2020 07:45 | 9h 30m | 2,523 | 16K |
| 6 | September 4, 2020 14:45 | September 4, 2020 20:30 | 5h 45m | 2,087 | 854 |
| 7 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | April 10, 2020 01:30 | 9h | 1,515 | 5,191 |
| 8 | January 12, 2020 03:45 | January 12, 2020 19:30 | 15h 45m | 1,431 | 3,058 |
| 9 | June 17, 2020 23:15 | June 18, 2020 03:15 | 4h | 1,245 | 427 |
| 10 | August 12, 2020 05:30 | August 12, 2020 16:00 | 10h 30m | 1,158 | 8,401 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Culpeper 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Culpeper- (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,716 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. Culpeper County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Culpeper 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/culpeper-county