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2021 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 29.2 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 305th 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 Bland 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 | January 28, 2021 03:15 | January 30, 2021 00:45 | 1d 21h | 3,081 | 46K |
| 2 | February 18, 2021 12:30 | February 20, 2021 12:45 | 2d | 1,415 | 6,875 |
| 3 | May 25, 2021 18:00 | May 25, 2021 23:30 | 5h 30m | 1,071 | 1,749 |
| 4 | February 24, 2021 13:00 | February 25, 2021 00:15 | 11h 15m | 802 | 3,497 |
| 5 | April 21, 2021 20:15 | April 21, 2021 22:30 | 2h 15m | 797 | 1,594 |
| 6 | May 21, 2021 22:30 | May 21, 2021 23:30 | 1h | 760 | 760 |
| 7 | May 4, 2021 16:30 | May 5, 2021 00:45 | 8h 15m | 758 | 2,511 |
| 8 | April 24, 2021 18:00 | April 24, 2021 19:45 | 1h 45m | 756 | 1,323 |
| 9 | December 12, 2021 00:30 | December 12, 2021 18:00 | 17h 30m | 752 | 13K |
| 10 | February 13, 2021 21:15 | February 17, 2021 03:45 | 3d 6h | 583 | 4,915 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county