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2021 Culpeper County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Culpeper County, VA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1385th 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 Culpeper 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 | July 14, 2021 19:15 | July 16, 2021 10:00 | 1d 14h | 7,477 | 49K |
| 2 | September 16, 2021 22:30 | September 17, 2021 02:00 | 3h 30m | 2,615 | 3,384 |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 16:15 | May 1, 2021 07:15 | 15h | 2,577 | 12K |
| 4 | July 27, 2021 00:00 | July 27, 2021 03:15 | 3h 15m | 2,352 | 1,124 |
| 5 | November 1, 2021 13:30 | November 1, 2021 14:30 | 1h | 2,263 | 567 |
| 6 | June 3, 2021 21:30 | June 4, 2021 00:45 | 3h 15m | 2,017 | 2,377 |
| 7 | October 25, 2021 20:30 | October 26, 2021 09:45 | 13h 15m | 1,714 | 4,754 |
| 8 | March 28, 2021 10:15 | March 28, 2021 11:30 | 1h 15m | 1,647 | 2,045 |
| 9 | October 29, 2021 06:45 | October 29, 2021 08:45 | 2h | 1,459 | 2,693 |
| 10 | September 23, 2021 03:30 | September 23, 2021 20:30 | 17h | 1,180 | 6,392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 48 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Culpeper 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Culpeper- (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,716 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. Culpeper County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Culpeper 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/culpeper-county