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2020 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 2474th 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 Stafford 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 | July 21, 2020 23:30 | July 24, 2020 14:30 | 2d 15h | 4,311 | 11K |
| 2 | November 26, 2020 20:15 | November 26, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 3,418 | 855 |
| 3 | May 31, 2020 15:45 | May 31, 2020 18:45 | 3h | 3,358 | 2,982 |
| 4 | January 16, 2020 20:15 | January 16, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 3,302 | 2,491 |
| 5 | May 26, 2020 20:00 | May 26, 2020 21:00 | 1h | 2,511 | 1,283 |
| 6 | June 11, 2020 04:45 | June 11, 2020 14:45 | 10h | 2,384 | 5,849 |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 12:45 | November 11, 2020 15:45 | 3h | 2,273 | 5,143 |
| 8 | November 17, 2020 14:00 | November 18, 2020 08:30 | 18h 30m | 1,655 | 2,907 |
| 9 | August 13, 2020 11:45 | August 13, 2020 14:30 | 2h 45m | 1,563 | 1,247 |
| 10 | September 7, 2020 05:45 | September 7, 2020 07:45 | 2h | 1,562 | 1,887 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 75 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Stafford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.8 hrs | 2.16 | 2.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county