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2020 Patrick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Patrick County, VA went without power for an average of 21.3 hours, a total of 230K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 401st 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 Patrick 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 | April 8, 2020 21:30 | April 11, 2020 00:00 | 2d 2h | 3,933 | 99K |
| 2 | May 3, 2020 14:00 | May 3, 2020 20:15 | 6h 15m | 2,023 | 2,671 |
| 3 | October 14, 2020 07:00 | October 14, 2020 19:45 | 12h 45m | 1,925 | 9,190 |
| 4 | December 26, 2020 01:15 | December 26, 2020 18:45 | 17h 30m | 1,913 | 587 |
| 5 | June 10, 2020 23:30 | June 11, 2020 07:30 | 8h | 1,750 | 6,214 |
| 6 | May 31, 2020 00:30 | May 31, 2020 08:30 | 8h | 1,658 | 7,618 |
| 7 | September 1, 2020 10:45 | September 1, 2020 23:30 | 12h 45m | 1,658 | 1,408 |
| 8 | December 16, 2020 14:00 | December 17, 2020 17:15 | 1d 3h | 1,495 | 4,990 |
| 9 | August 28, 2020 23:45 | August 29, 2020 23:45 | 1d | 1,224 | 4,659 |
| 10 | May 27, 2020 23:15 | May 28, 2020 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,146 | 1,432 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Patrick 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 |
| City of Danville - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,828 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. Patrick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Patrick 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/patrick-county