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2021 Dickenson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dickenson County, VA went without power for an average of 13.7 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 610th 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 Dickenson 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 9, 2021 16:15 | May 11, 2021 02:00 | 1d 9h | 1,442 | 22K |
| 2 | February 12, 2021 01:30 | February 16, 2021 23:30 | 4d 22h | 1,210 | 20K |
| 3 | April 29, 2021 14:45 | April 30, 2021 15:30 | 1d | 1,012 | 647 |
| 4 | May 28, 2021 17:15 | May 29, 2021 18:00 | 1d | 647 | 3,222 |
| 5 | August 17, 2021 20:00 | August 20, 2021 18:45 | 2d 22h | 561 | 9,616 |
| 6 | February 7, 2021 08:45 | February 9, 2021 00:45 | 1d 16h | 445 | 5,321 |
| 7 | August 25, 2021 15:00 | August 25, 2021 17:00 | 2h | 384 | 768 |
| 8 | January 31, 2021 15:00 | January 31, 2021 18:30 | 3h 30m | 383 | 674 |
| 9 | October 4, 2021 14:00 | October 4, 2021 21:00 | 7h | 327 | 1,687 |
| 10 | September 2, 2021 09:00 | September 2, 2021 12:45 | 3h 45m | 326 | 578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 51 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 Dickenson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
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 ÷ 8,563 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. Dickenson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickenson 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/dickenson-county