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2021 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 19.0 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 457th 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 Alleghany 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 | May 4, 2021 19:00 | May 6, 2021 17:15 | 1d 22h | 2,066 | 9,048 |
| 2 | February 18, 2021 13:15 | February 19, 2021 20:30 | 1d 7h | 1,970 | 8,840 |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 13:00 | May 1, 2021 17:15 | 1d 4h | 1,793 | 8,470 |
| 4 | January 19, 2021 13:45 | January 19, 2021 18:15 | 4h 30m | 958 | 719 |
| 5 | April 29, 2021 22:30 | April 30, 2021 02:30 | 4h | 856 | 2,348 |
| 6 | March 6, 2021 16:00 | March 6, 2021 23:45 | 7h 45m | 772 | 2,207 |
| 7 | June 30, 2021 14:30 | June 30, 2021 18:30 | 4h | 746 | 2,984 |
| 8 | April 21, 2021 15:30 | April 21, 2021 17:00 | 1h 30m | 745 | 745 |
| 9 | September 22, 2021 19:45 | September 23, 2021 15:45 | 20h | 684 | 1,206 |
| 10 | June 13, 2021 22:30 | June 14, 2021 22:15 | 23h 45m | 645 | 3,980 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 41 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county