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2020 Nelson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nelson County, VA went without power for an average of 27.9 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 306th 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 Nelson 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 11, 2020 22:30 | August 13, 2020 04:00 | 1d 5h | 6,469 | 43K |
| 2 | August 5, 2020 04:15 | August 5, 2020 08:15 | 4h | 6,428 | 25K |
| 3 | May 22, 2020 05:00 | May 22, 2020 16:30 | 11h 30m | 6,377 | 27K |
| 4 | September 29, 2020 20:45 | September 30, 2020 00:45 | 4h | 4,157 | 2,858 |
| 5 | May 5, 2020 14:00 | May 5, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 2,271 | 1,141 |
| 6 | November 17, 2020 13:45 | November 18, 2020 00:00 | 10h 15m | 2,115 | 5,124 |
| 7 | August 29, 2020 00:45 | August 30, 2020 02:45 | 1d 2h | 1,596 | 10K |
| 8 | April 8, 2020 10:15 | April 8, 2020 21:00 | 10h 45m | 1,280 | 3,916 |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 16:45 | June 11, 2020 00:00 | 7h 15m | 1,067 | 1,623 |
| 10 | May 12, 2020 01:45 | May 12, 2020 06:15 | 4h 30m | 1,061 | 1,752 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Nelson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2020 | 8.4 hrs | 3.17 | 5.4 hrs | 2.32 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 |
| 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 ÷ 5,606 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county