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2021 Charlottesville city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Charlottesville city, VA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1779th 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 Charlottesville 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 | August 22, 2021 07:15 | August 22, 2021 09:15 | 2h | 7,239 | 7,312 |
| 2 | September 22, 2021 13:30 | September 23, 2021 10:00 | 20h 30m | 4,698 | 8,356 |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 20:45 | May 5, 2021 20:15 | 23h 30m | 3,158 | 9,591 |
| 4 | July 29, 2021 02:45 | July 29, 2021 09:30 | 6h 45m | 2,815 | 3,842 |
| 5 | August 4, 2021 18:45 | August 5, 2021 02:45 | 8h | 2,475 | 3,753 |
| 6 | August 20, 2021 00:00 | August 20, 2021 11:30 | 11h 30m | 2,376 | 1,139 |
| 7 | July 12, 2021 20:30 | July 13, 2021 00:15 | 3h 45m | 2,348 | 3,732 |
| 8 | July 25, 2021 07:15 | July 25, 2021 10:00 | 2h 45m | 1,592 | 2,075 |
| 9 | August 26, 2021 13:30 | August 26, 2021 18:30 | 5h | 1,362 | 3,417 |
| 10 | May 30, 2021 18:30 | May 31, 2021 03:45 | 9h 15m | 1,113 | 929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 36 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 Charlottesville 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 ÷ 20,605 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. Charlottesville city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlottesville 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/charlottesville-city