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2020 Madison County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Madison County, VA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1338th 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 Madison 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 | December 16, 2020 20:45 | December 19, 2020 16:45 | 2d 20h | 1,714 | 13K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 21:45 | July 23, 2020 04:45 | 1d 7h | 1,009 | 2,137 |
| 3 | March 21, 2020 14:00 | March 21, 2020 15:30 | 1h 30m | 1,000 | 253 |
| 4 | September 15, 2020 05:15 | September 15, 2020 09:45 | 4h 30m | 938 | 4,221 |
| 5 | April 9, 2020 17:00 | April 10, 2020 03:00 | 10h | 752 | 1,080 |
| 6 | July 20, 2020 21:45 | July 21, 2020 03:00 | 5h 15m | 466 | 602 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 22:00 | November 16, 2020 06:00 | 8h | 452 | 1,141 |
| 8 | April 13, 2020 01:00 | April 13, 2020 03:30 | 2h 30m | 407 | 383 |
| 9 | October 13, 2020 16:45 | October 13, 2020 19:15 | 2h 30m | 358 | 729 |
| 10 | April 13, 2020 19:15 | April 13, 2020 20:30 | 1h 15m | 351 | 264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Madison 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 ÷ 6,952 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. Madison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county