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2020 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 18.2 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 469th 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 Lancaster 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 | August 4, 2020 09:45 | August 7, 2020 18:30 | 3d 8h | 4,006 | 68K |
| 2 | December 5, 2020 09:00 | December 5, 2020 18:30 | 9h 30m | 1,362 | 3,844 |
| 3 | July 17, 2020 21:00 | July 18, 2020 09:30 | 12h 30m | 804 | 2,260 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 13:15 | February 8, 2020 21:00 | 1d 7h | 626 | 2,616 |
| 5 | December 21, 2020 03:00 | December 21, 2020 13:45 | 10h 45m | 450 | 206 |
| 6 | January 5, 2020 00:15 | January 5, 2020 12:15 | 12h | 422 | 1,854 |
| 7 | January 4, 2020 14:30 | January 4, 2020 23:15 | 8h 45m | 375 | 111 |
| 8 | April 7, 2020 21:15 | April 8, 2020 08:45 | 11h 30m | 364 | 667 |
| 9 | June 7, 2020 01:15 | June 7, 2020 08:30 | 7h 15m | 324 | 1,644 |
| 10 | June 20, 2020 20:00 | June 20, 2020 22:15 | 2h 15m | 275 | 287 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 26 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/virginia/lancaster-county