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2021 Buena Vista city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Buena Vista city, VA went without power for an average of 11260.5 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2nd 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 Buena Vista city, 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 26, 2021 23:45 | May 27, 2021 03:00 | 3h 15m | 1,402 | 4,181 |
| 2 | June 13, 2021 22:30 | June 14, 2021 19:30 | 21h | 724 | 2,275 |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 20:00 | May 5, 2021 15:45 | 19h 45m | 705 | 2,375 |
| 4 | August 18, 2021 11:00 | August 18, 2021 15:15 | 4h 15m | 90 | 218 |
| 5 | September 23, 2021 09:15 | September 23, 2021 17:15 | 8h | 76 | 433 |
| 6 | July 27, 2021 05:15 | July 27, 2021 08:15 | 3h | 74 | 112 |
| 7 | June 25, 2021 19:45 | June 26, 2021 05:45 | 10h | 68 | 538 |
| 8 | February 23, 2021 08:30 | February 23, 2021 14:30 | 6h | 59 | 113 |
| 9 | October 24, 2021 13:15 | October 24, 2021 14:45 | 1h 30m | 46 | 69 |
| 10 | October 26, 2021 16:45 | October 26, 2021 18:45 | 2h | 45 | 80 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Buena Vista city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 1 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. Buena Vista city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/virginia/buena-vista-city