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2020 Fauquier County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fauquier County, VA went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 351K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 724th 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 Fauquier 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 16, 2020 20:30 | December 19, 2020 15:30 | 2d 19h | 9,329 | 137K |
| 2 | June 4, 2020 21:00 | June 6, 2020 00:45 | 1d 3h | 5,416 | 33K |
| 3 | May 29, 2020 18:15 | May 30, 2020 13:00 | 18h 45m | 4,941 | 12K |
| 4 | September 16, 2020 17:45 | September 16, 2020 22:30 | 4h 45m | 4,003 | 3,360 |
| 5 | November 2, 2020 01:00 | November 3, 2020 17:30 | 1d 16h | 2,728 | 17K |
| 6 | February 7, 2020 04:45 | February 8, 2020 06:30 | 1d 1h | 2,590 | 7,694 |
| 7 | June 22, 2020 21:00 | June 23, 2020 20:00 | 23h | 2,189 | 11K |
| 8 | August 28, 2020 22:00 | August 30, 2020 02:00 | 1d 4h | 2,161 | 6,098 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 01:30 | April 13, 2020 07:15 | 5h 45m | 1,889 | 2,704 |
| 10 | June 25, 2020 23:30 | June 26, 2020 14:15 | 14h 45m | 1,740 | 2,136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 78 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Fauquier 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 |
| 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 ÷ 31,801 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. Fauquier County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fauquier 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/fauquier-county