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2021 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 532nd 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 Buckingham 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 20:00 | May 6, 2021 00:00 | 1d 4h | 2,367 | 19K |
| 2 | August 14, 2021 16:30 | August 15, 2021 18:15 | 1d 1h | 1,932 | 8,638 |
| 3 | July 8, 2021 10:30 | July 8, 2021 12:30 | 2h | 1,839 | 3,184 |
| 4 | July 1, 2021 19:30 | July 3, 2021 04:00 | 1d 8h | 1,605 | 11K |
| 5 | July 26, 2021 21:30 | July 27, 2021 02:15 | 4h 45m | 1,604 | 828 |
| 6 | November 14, 2021 17:30 | November 14, 2021 18:15 | 45m | 1,603 | 401 |
| 7 | February 27, 2021 05:45 | February 27, 2021 10:15 | 4h 30m | 1,409 | 5,640 |
| 8 | January 31, 2021 17:30 | February 1, 2021 21:30 | 1d 4h | 1,275 | 1,756 |
| 9 | May 9, 2021 01:00 | May 9, 2021 03:15 | 2h 15m | 850 | 774 |
| 10 | March 29, 2021 02:30 | March 29, 2021 10:15 | 7h 45m | 772 | 4,097 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 32 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Buckingham 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county