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2020 Hanover County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hanover County, VA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 195K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1627th 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 Hanover 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 | February 7, 2020 08:30 | February 9, 2020 00:00 | 1d 15h | 11,639 | 54K |
| 2 | August 2, 2020 19:30 | August 4, 2020 03:30 | 1d 8h | 4,134 | 14K |
| 3 | January 21, 2020 14:45 | January 23, 2020 00:30 | 1d 9h | 3,955 | 1,030 |
| 4 | August 29, 2020 11:45 | August 29, 2020 21:15 | 9h 30m | 3,621 | 2,825 |
| 5 | April 27, 2020 08:00 | April 27, 2020 13:30 | 5h 30m | 3,605 | 3,423 |
| 6 | February 11, 2020 19:00 | February 12, 2020 19:15 | 1d | 3,596 | 4,167 |
| 7 | June 25, 2020 13:30 | June 26, 2020 19:00 | 1d 5h | 2,915 | 9,881 |
| 8 | August 4, 2020 06:30 | August 5, 2020 18:00 | 1d 11h | 2,568 | 8,463 |
| 9 | February 10, 2020 23:15 | February 11, 2020 02:30 | 3h 15m | 2,081 | 726 |
| 10 | May 9, 2020 03:00 | May 9, 2020 10:45 | 7h 45m | 1,960 | 5,995 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 74 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Hanover 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 |
| 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 ÷ 49,633 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. Hanover County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hanover 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/hanover-county