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2020 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 217K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 676th 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 Orange 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 20:00 | December 20, 2020 02:00 | 3d 6h | 7,552 | 163K |
| 2 | August 26, 2020 00:00 | August 26, 2020 08:00 | 8h | 1,687 | 2,796 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 23:00 | January 13, 2020 00:15 | 1d 1h | 1,522 | 7,622 |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | April 10, 2020 01:45 | 9h 15m | 1,494 | 2,688 |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 13:15 | February 7, 2020 19:45 | 6h 30m | 956 | 1,011 |
| 6 | November 30, 2020 06:30 | November 30, 2020 07:45 | 1h 15m | 956 | 717 |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 17:30 | November 11, 2020 19:00 | 1h 30m | 955 | 718 |
| 8 | April 3, 2020 14:45 | April 3, 2020 16:30 | 1h 45m | 952 | 477 |
| 9 | April 24, 2020 12:30 | April 24, 2020 12:45 | 15m | 950 | 238 |
| 10 | August 4, 2020 01:00 | August 4, 2020 01:30 | 30m | 905 | 453 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Orange 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2020 | 8.4 hrs | 3.17 | 5.4 hrs | 2.32 |
| 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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county