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2020 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 249K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 997th 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 Washington 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 | October 13, 2020 12:15 | October 13, 2020 16:15 | 4h | 3,508 | 1,659 |
| 2 | September 23, 2020 17:30 | September 25, 2020 15:15 | 1d 21h | 2,389 | 4,952 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 15:00 | January 14, 2020 18:45 | 3d 3h | 2,367 | 51K |
| 4 | April 12, 2020 23:30 | April 15, 2020 00:30 | 2d 1h | 2,144 | 14K |
| 5 | December 24, 2020 19:30 | December 27, 2020 02:00 | 2d 6h | 1,939 | 21K |
| 6 | March 29, 2020 17:00 | March 30, 2020 19:00 | 1d 2h | 1,459 | 3,368 |
| 7 | December 11, 2020 14:00 | December 11, 2020 22:45 | 8h 45m | 1,274 | 7,213 |
| 8 | August 28, 2020 20:30 | August 30, 2020 20:15 | 1d 23h | 1,016 | 8,247 |
| 9 | January 15, 2020 12:45 | January 17, 2020 02:15 | 1d 13h | 917 | 4,838 |
| 10 | May 20, 2020 19:15 | May 21, 2020 21:00 | 1d 1h | 898 | 2,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 76 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| 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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county