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2020 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 673rd 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 Russell 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 13, 2020 05:15 | April 15, 2020 18:45 | 2d 13h | 5,749 | 35K |
| 2 | August 1, 2020 01:00 | August 2, 2020 00:00 | 23h | 5,512 | 11K |
| 3 | July 23, 2020 19:00 | July 25, 2020 02:00 | 1d 7h | 4,709 | 20K |
| 4 | August 14, 2020 11:15 | August 15, 2020 09:30 | 22h 15m | 2,384 | 5,030 |
| 5 | July 20, 2020 13:30 | July 23, 2020 17:45 | 3d 4h | 2,189 | 6,501 |
| 6 | June 20, 2020 22:30 | June 21, 2020 04:30 | 6h | 2,182 | 1,697 |
| 7 | February 6, 2020 18:15 | February 10, 2020 19:30 | 4d 1h | 2,165 | 3,496 |
| 8 | February 10, 2020 23:15 | February 11, 2020 02:45 | 3h 30m | 996 | 2,329 |
| 9 | February 4, 2020 11:45 | February 4, 2020 14:45 | 3h | 983 | 2,458 |
| 10 | June 9, 2020 17:00 | June 10, 2020 00:00 | 7h | 765 | 1,928 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 52 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county