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2020 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 26.4 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 319th 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 Giles 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 8, 2020 12:45 | April 11, 2020 00:15 | 2d 11h | 3,367 | 53K |
| 2 | August 26, 2020 01:00 | August 26, 2020 21:30 | 20h 30m | 1,862 | 7,687 |
| 3 | November 1, 2020 18:45 | November 3, 2020 18:15 | 1d 23h | 1,065 | 16K |
| 4 | July 22, 2020 00:00 | July 22, 2020 20:30 | 20h 30m | 1,046 | 2,274 |
| 5 | July 14, 2020 13:30 | July 14, 2020 23:00 | 9h 30m | 967 | 2,006 |
| 6 | May 21, 2020 06:45 | May 22, 2020 01:15 | 18h 30m | 663 | 7,911 |
| 7 | October 27, 2020 15:15 | October 27, 2020 17:15 | 2h | 578 | 1,013 |
| 8 | June 5, 2020 04:15 | June 5, 2020 08:45 | 4h 30m | 576 | 2,592 |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 22:45 | February 6, 2020 23:45 | 1h | 570 | 145 |
| 10 | June 17, 2020 18:45 | June 18, 2020 22:00 | 1d 3h | 448 | 4,609 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 38 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Giles 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county