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2020 Scott County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Scott County, VA went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 109K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 860th 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 Scott 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 | January 11, 2020 04:15 | January 15, 2020 12:00 | 4d 7h | 1,072 | 18K |
| 2 | July 5, 2020 20:30 | July 7, 2020 00:45 | 1d 4h | 967 | 5,493 |
| 3 | May 30, 2020 06:00 | May 30, 2020 11:30 | 5h 30m | 718 | 3,771 |
| 4 | August 5, 2020 13:00 | August 5, 2020 17:00 | 4h | 614 | 1,220 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 19:15 | November 2, 2020 22:30 | 1d 3h | 595 | 3,157 |
| 6 | September 6, 2020 11:30 | September 6, 2020 15:00 | 3h 30m | 594 | 1,185 |
| 7 | March 19, 2020 08:30 | March 19, 2020 15:30 | 7h | 512 | 342 |
| 8 | April 28, 2020 18:15 | April 30, 2020 16:30 | 1d 22h | 496 | 2,964 |
| 9 | March 27, 2020 11:15 | March 27, 2020 14:00 | 2h 45m | 443 | 1,218 |
| 10 | April 16, 2020 21:15 | April 17, 2020 17:45 | 20h 30m | 433 | 724 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 47 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Scott 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 88 min | 1.44 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2020 | 86 min | 0.96 | 59 min | 0.87 |
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 ÷ 11,959 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county