County annual report · FIPS 51043
2021 Clarke County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Clarke County, VA went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1028th 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 Clarke 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 | June 21, 2021 21:00 | June 23, 2021 00:45 | 1d 3h | 1,816 | 11K |
| 2 | August 30, 2021 06:00 | August 30, 2021 09:45 | 3h 45m | 1,578 | 5,918 |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 04:30 | May 2, 2021 01:15 | 1d 20h | 1,522 | 8,674 |
| 4 | August 12, 2021 17:30 | August 12, 2021 20:45 | 3h 15m | 1,430 | 1,431 |
| 5 | May 9, 2021 12:30 | May 9, 2021 14:30 | 2h | 891 | 1,337 |
| 6 | September 1, 2021 18:30 | September 2, 2021 06:00 | 11h 30m | 583 | 3,112 |
| 7 | April 6, 2021 22:00 | April 6, 2021 22:45 | 45m | 513 | 297 |
| 8 | August 10, 2021 20:15 | August 12, 2021 00:00 | 1d 3h | 501 | 4,593 |
| 9 | May 27, 2021 14:00 | May 27, 2021 15:45 | 1h 45m | 369 | 646 |
| 10 | April 15, 2021 23:30 | April 16, 2021 01:00 | 1h 30m | 368 | 552 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 28 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Clarke 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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | 2.21 | 2.8 hrs | 1.94 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| 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 ÷ 7,589 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. Clarke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clarke 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/clarke-county