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2021 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 10.4 hours, a total of 472K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 754th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 13, 2021 17:30 | August 24, 2021 21:00 | 11d 3h | 10,439 | 71K |
| 2 | July 12, 2021 13:30 | July 14, 2021 01:30 | 1d 12h | 6,971 | 12K |
| 3 | August 10, 2021 14:45 | August 13, 2021 08:30 | 2d 17h | 4,138 | 15K |
| 4 | July 29, 2021 02:45 | July 31, 2021 22:00 | 2d 19h | 3,723 | 63K |
| 5 | January 21, 2021 19:00 | January 22, 2021 00:15 | 5h 15m | 3,505 | 1,776 |
| 6 | May 4, 2021 05:00 | May 7, 2021 00:15 | 2d 19h | 3,128 | 69K |
| 7 | May 9, 2021 02:00 | May 9, 2021 14:15 | 12h 15m | 2,908 | 3,961 |
| 8 | September 22, 2021 20:45 | September 23, 2021 17:00 | 20h 15m | 2,606 | 2,242 |
| 9 | August 25, 2021 15:00 | August 27, 2021 10:15 | 1d 19h | 2,397 | 8,673 |
| 10 | February 13, 2021 12:45 | February 18, 2021 01:15 | 4d 12h | 2,001 | 30K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 100 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.6 hrs | 2.14 | 2.7 hrs | 1.54 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.0 hrs | 3.44 | 4.2 hrs | 2.89 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/virginia/albemarle-county