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2021 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 16.5 hours, a total of 175K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 517th 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 Botetourt 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 3, 2021 13:45 | May 7, 2021 01:15 | 3d 11h | 4,052 | 46K |
| 2 | October 4, 2021 11:30 | October 4, 2021 19:15 | 7h 45m | 1,533 | 1,655 |
| 3 | February 7, 2021 13:00 | February 8, 2021 00:30 | 11h 30m | 1,513 | 5,654 |
| 4 | August 18, 2021 03:30 | August 18, 2021 21:00 | 17h 30m | 1,512 | 5,154 |
| 5 | April 29, 2021 11:30 | May 1, 2021 22:00 | 2d 10h | 1,263 | 12K |
| 6 | May 26, 2021 12:15 | May 27, 2021 01:30 | 13h 15m | 1,255 | 1,391 |
| 7 | August 13, 2021 22:15 | August 14, 2021 21:00 | 22h 45m | 1,249 | 2,901 |
| 8 | June 13, 2021 22:30 | June 15, 2021 16:00 | 1d 17h | 1,122 | 13K |
| 9 | August 31, 2021 01:30 | August 31, 2021 02:15 | 45m | 1,056 | 369 |
| 10 | August 3, 2021 23:15 | August 4, 2021 22:45 | 23h 30m | 1,048 | 771 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 57 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county