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2020 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 101st worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1832nd 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 Franklin 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 | November 17, 2020 00:45 | November 19, 2020 03:00 | 2d 2h | 4,224 | 13K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 15:00 | January 13, 2020 17:45 | 2d 2h | 1,420 | 16K |
| 3 | March 18, 2020 13:30 | March 18, 2020 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,403 | 1,786 |
| 4 | November 12, 2020 02:00 | November 13, 2020 00:00 | 22h | 1,137 | 9,928 |
| 5 | January 25, 2020 01:15 | January 25, 2020 15:45 | 14h 30m | 1,040 | 1,357 |
| 6 | November 23, 2020 07:00 | November 24, 2020 03:45 | 20h 45m | 934 | 3,651 |
| 7 | November 20, 2020 16:30 | November 20, 2020 19:00 | 2h 30m | 933 | 1,868 |
| 8 | April 8, 2020 20:15 | April 11, 2020 13:45 | 2d 17h | 787 | 13K |
| 9 | December 16, 2020 16:45 | December 17, 2020 16:30 | 23h 45m | 646 | 3,596 |
| 10 | January 8, 2020 15:30 | January 8, 2020 22:45 | 7h 15m | 477 | 1,404 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Franklin 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county