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2021 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 13.1 hours, a total of 628K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 632nd 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 Bedford 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 8, 2021 02:00 | 3d 7h | 8,231 | 121K |
| 2 | February 13, 2021 09:15 | February 22, 2021 22:15 | 9d 13h | 5,490 | 309K |
| 3 | October 11, 2021 13:00 | October 12, 2021 00:15 | 11h 15m | 3,333 | 9,967 |
| 4 | August 11, 2021 17:45 | August 12, 2021 14:00 | 20h 15m | 2,261 | 4,590 |
| 5 | June 18, 2021 06:00 | June 20, 2021 16:00 | 2d 10h | 1,897 | 1,310 |
| 6 | June 18, 2021 03:15 | June 18, 2021 03:45 | 30m | 1,880 | 940 |
| 7 | March 22, 2021 10:45 | March 24, 2021 23:45 | 2d 13h | 1,511 | 2,930 |
| 8 | July 8, 2021 10:15 | July 13, 2021 03:45 | 4d 17h | 1,510 | 9,643 |
| 9 | August 5, 2021 22:30 | August 6, 2021 01:15 | 2h 45m | 1,506 | 3,015 |
| 10 | August 10, 2021 12:15 | August 11, 2021 17:00 | 1d 4h | 1,493 | 1,200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 82 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 97.5 hrs | 3.86 | 4.8 hrs | 2.49 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.12 | 74 min | 0.42 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county