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2021 Caroline County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Caroline County, VA went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 900th 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 Caroline 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 | February 13, 2021 15:15 | February 17, 2021 01:45 | 3d 10h | 3,917 | 92K |
| 2 | August 13, 2021 19:00 | August 14, 2021 19:15 | 1d | 1,070 | 4,534 |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 21:15 | May 5, 2021 19:15 | 22h | 840 | 4,640 |
| 4 | April 1, 2021 05:15 | April 1, 2021 09:00 | 3h 45m | 790 | 2,762 |
| 5 | October 29, 2021 11:45 | October 29, 2021 17:15 | 5h 30m | 769 | 705 |
| 6 | July 29, 2021 18:45 | July 31, 2021 07:45 | 1d 13h | 639 | 1,994 |
| 7 | August 7, 2021 13:45 | August 7, 2021 15:30 | 1h 45m | 639 | 480 |
| 8 | August 26, 2021 22:30 | August 26, 2021 23:15 | 45m | 520 | 390 |
| 9 | February 2, 2021 14:30 | February 2, 2021 19:45 | 5h 15m | 512 | 295 |
| 10 | October 18, 2021 21:30 | October 18, 2021 22:30 | 1h | 461 | 231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Caroline 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.6 hrs | 2.14 | 2.7 hrs | 1.54 |
| 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 ÷ 14,714 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. Caroline County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caroline 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/caroline-county