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2020 Rockbridge County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rockbridge County, VA went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 129 Virginia counties and 785th 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 Rockbridge 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 10:00 | April 9, 2020 13:15 | 1d 3h | 2,783 | 13K |
| 2 | April 30, 2020 01:00 | April 30, 2020 19:15 | 18h 15m | 2,063 | 9,850 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 20:00 | June 6, 2020 02:30 | 1d 6h | 1,580 | 5,901 |
| 4 | July 22, 2020 19:15 | July 23, 2020 01:15 | 6h | 1,481 | 2,494 |
| 5 | December 16, 2020 18:30 | December 18, 2020 11:45 | 1d 17h | 1,355 | 12K |
| 6 | August 19, 2020 19:45 | August 19, 2020 23:45 | 4h | 1,268 | 2,234 |
| 7 | September 6, 2020 22:45 | September 7, 2020 00:45 | 2h | 1,267 | 2,534 |
| 8 | March 15, 2020 07:15 | March 15, 2020 15:15 | 8h | 872 | 4,572 |
| 9 | May 11, 2020 13:00 | May 12, 2020 12:15 | 23h 15m | 772 | 1,334 |
| 10 | December 22, 2020 03:00 | December 22, 2020 07:45 | 4h 45m | 635 | 2,612 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Rockbridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 11,617 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. Rockbridge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockbridge 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/rockbridge-county