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2020 Galax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Galax city, VA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 110th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 2111th 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 Galax city, 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 | February 15, 2020 15:00 | February 15, 2020 15:45 | 45m | 1,120 | 698 |
| 2 | June 20, 2020 13:30 | June 20, 2020 15:00 | 1h 30m | 988 | 1,144 |
| 3 | September 28, 2020 19:45 | September 28, 2020 20:30 | 45m | 979 | 734 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 04:00 | April 13, 2020 18:00 | 14h | 977 | 1,123 |
| 5 | February 21, 2020 17:00 | February 21, 2020 20:15 | 3h 15m | 976 | 1,436 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 13:30 | October 29, 2020 18:00 | 4h 30m | 228 | 301 |
| 7 | June 30, 2020 18:30 | July 1, 2020 01:30 | 7h | 227 | 1,570 |
| 8 | July 2, 2020 12:15 | July 2, 2020 14:30 | 2h 15m | 223 | 184 |
| 9 | September 17, 2020 20:45 | September 18, 2020 00:00 | 3h 15m | 206 | 114 |
| 10 | July 11, 2020 08:15 | July 11, 2020 12:30 | 4h 15m | 204 | 867 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 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 Galax city 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 |
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 ÷ 5,393 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. Galax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Galax city, 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/galax-city