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2020 Lee County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, VA went without power for an average of 10.9 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 735th 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 Lee 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 | September 8, 2020 11:45 | September 8, 2020 13:45 | 2h | 1,855 | 491 |
| 2 | May 16, 2020 18:00 | May 16, 2020 20:00 | 2h | 1,831 | 3,203 |
| 3 | August 31, 2020 06:30 | August 31, 2020 09:00 | 2h 30m | 1,821 | 3,140 |
| 4 | May 19, 2020 15:00 | May 19, 2020 17:45 | 2h 45m | 1,545 | 1,729 |
| 5 | August 6, 2020 17:15 | August 6, 2020 21:30 | 4h 15m | 1,453 | 2,278 |
| 6 | October 27, 2020 18:00 | October 27, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 1,406 | 352 |
| 7 | August 6, 2020 01:00 | August 6, 2020 02:45 | 1h 45m | 1,391 | 1,394 |
| 8 | July 22, 2020 02:15 | July 22, 2020 16:30 | 14h 15m | 916 | 1,131 |
| 9 | July 28, 2020 13:00 | July 28, 2020 15:30 | 2h 30m | 781 | 753 |
| 10 | September 5, 2020 16:00 | September 6, 2020 01:30 | 9h 30m | 725 | 4,631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 88 min | 1.44 |
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 ÷ 7,474 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. Lee County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county