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2021 Craig County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Craig County, VA went without power for an average of 41.3 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 213th 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 Craig 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 15:15 | May 6, 2021 18:45 | 2d 3h | 1,421 | 10K |
| 2 | May 3, 2021 10:30 | May 3, 2021 14:15 | 3h 45m | 1,285 | 2,579 |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 15:45 | May 1, 2021 15:30 | 23h 45m | 1,249 | 12K |
| 4 | April 29, 2021 14:00 | April 29, 2021 18:45 | 4h 45m | 839 | 3,139 |
| 5 | December 10, 2021 22:30 | December 11, 2021 03:30 | 5h | 724 | 702 |
| 6 | August 18, 2021 18:45 | August 18, 2021 20:30 | 1h 45m | 543 | 884 |
| 7 | September 1, 2021 11:45 | September 1, 2021 15:45 | 4h | 543 | 1,777 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 17:00 | December 12, 2021 19:15 | 1d 2h | 466 | 2,310 |
| 9 | September 22, 2021 17:45 | September 22, 2021 18:00 | 15m | 359 | 90 |
| 10 | March 4, 2021 19:15 | March 4, 2021 20:30 | 1h 15m | 357 | 284 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 30 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Craig 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
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 ÷ 1,256 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. Craig County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Craig 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/craig-county