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2020 Salem city, VA Power Outage Report

In 2020, customers in Salem city, VA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 35 customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 128th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 3004th of 3,019 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
0.0
13,871 customers
Customer-hours out
35
Peak customers out
4
Outages ≥1,000 out
0
0 of 10,000+ · 2 total
Longest outage
8h
began June 8, 2020
Rank in state
128th/129
3004th of 3,019 US

Compared with VA, the US and 2019

Salem city, VA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2020Salem city 0.0 hours, Virginia average 6.1 hours, US average 8.7 hours, Salem city, 2019 0.0 hoursSalem citySalem city0.0hVirginia averageVirginia average6.1hUS averageUS average8.7hSalem city, 2019Salem city, 20190.0h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2020; last bar is this county in 2019.

Month by month

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Salem city, VA customer-hours without power by month, 2020Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 3, May 0, Jun 32, Jul 0, Aug 0, Sep 0, Oct 0, Nov 0, Dec 00102030400Jan0Feb0Mar3Apr0May32Jun0Jul0Aug0Sep0Oct0Nov0Dec
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Customer-hours; June was the worst month.

Salem city year over year

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Salem city, VA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 0.0h; 2016: 0.0h; 2017: 0.0h; 2018: 0.0h, coverage 96%; 2019: 0.0h, coverage 97%; 2020: 0.0h, coverage 97%; 2021: 0.0h, coverage 97%; 2022: no data; 2023: 0.0h; 2024: 0.0h; 2025: 0.0h000000%50%100%0.0h20150.0h20160.0h20170.0h20180.0h20190.0h20200.0h2021n/a20220.0h20230.0h20240.0h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Salem city, 2020

The 2 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1April 8, 2020 20:15April 8, 2020 21:0045m43
2June 8, 2020 12:45June 8, 2020 20:458h432

Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Salem city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
City of Salem - (VA)202010 min0.2310 min0.23

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 ÷ 13,871 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. Salem city has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem city, 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/salem-city

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