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2020 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 217K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1697th 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 Lynchburg 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 | June 2, 2020 11:45 | June 3, 2020 02:00 | 14h 15m | 5,666 | 28K |
| 2 | May 16, 2020 00:30 | May 16, 2020 04:15 | 3h 45m | 3,769 | 10K |
| 3 | August 24, 2020 22:30 | August 26, 2020 02:15 | 1d 3h | 2,965 | 34K |
| 4 | June 16, 2020 04:00 | June 16, 2020 09:30 | 5h 30m | 2,746 | 9,466 |
| 5 | June 11, 2020 12:30 | June 12, 2020 00:15 | 11h 45m | 1,881 | 2,509 |
| 6 | November 12, 2020 03:15 | November 12, 2020 05:30 | 2h 15m | 1,801 | 485 |
| 7 | February 8, 2020 13:30 | February 8, 2020 19:45 | 6h 15m | 1,786 | 1,941 |
| 8 | November 13, 2020 20:15 | November 14, 2020 18:15 | 22h | 1,775 | 1,918 |
| 9 | November 15, 2020 16:30 | November 15, 2020 21:30 | 5h | 1,438 | 2,211 |
| 10 | April 1, 2020 17:45 | April 2, 2020 01:00 | 7h 15m | 1,391 | 2,118 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 97 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Lynchburg 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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg 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/lynchburg-city