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2020 Dickenson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dickenson County, VA went without power for an average of 17.2 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 492nd 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 Dickenson 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 | April 12, 2020 21:30 | April 16, 2020 00:30 | 3d 3h | 2,148 | 41K |
| 2 | April 8, 2020 21:45 | April 10, 2020 03:15 | 1d 5h | 796 | 11K |
| 3 | December 24, 2020 21:30 | December 27, 2020 00:00 | 2d 2h | 764 | 7,250 |
| 4 | July 28, 2020 20:30 | July 29, 2020 20:15 | 23h 45m | 733 | 4,048 |
| 5 | February 6, 2020 08:45 | February 7, 2020 23:15 | 1d 14h | 687 | 4,757 |
| 6 | August 20, 2020 22:00 | August 22, 2020 19:45 | 1d 21h | 588 | 3,512 |
| 7 | August 1, 2020 20:30 | August 2, 2020 01:45 | 5h 15m | 585 | 1,183 |
| 8 | June 23, 2020 21:30 | June 24, 2020 01:15 | 3h 45m | 569 | 2,134 |
| 9 | September 19, 2020 16:30 | September 19, 2020 19:45 | 3h 15m | 541 | 1,758 |
| 10 | May 31, 2020 18:30 | June 3, 2020 14:00 | 2d 19h | 393 | 1,368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 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 Dickenson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
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 ÷ 8,563 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. Dickenson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickenson 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/dickenson-county