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2021 Fauquier County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Fauquier County, VA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 200K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1114th 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 Fauquier 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 19, 2021 18:00 | May 19, 2021 21:30 | 3h 30m | 3,593 | 2,695 |
| 2 | February 9, 2021 13:30 | February 9, 2021 21:45 | 8h 15m | 3,510 | 1,123 |
| 3 | November 18, 2021 16:15 | November 18, 2021 22:30 | 6h 15m | 2,883 | 2,373 |
| 4 | November 26, 2021 11:15 | November 27, 2021 00:15 | 13h | 2,883 | 2,924 |
| 5 | October 26, 2021 14:00 | October 27, 2021 22:30 | 1d 8h | 2,763 | 10K |
| 6 | February 26, 2021 17:00 | February 26, 2021 18:15 | 1h 15m | 2,755 | 911 |
| 7 | July 7, 2021 15:45 | July 7, 2021 23:30 | 7h 45m | 2,726 | 11K |
| 8 | August 10, 2021 18:00 | August 12, 2021 09:30 | 1d 15h | 2,552 | 15K |
| 9 | April 30, 2021 16:15 | May 2, 2021 02:45 | 1d 10h | 2,492 | 21K |
| 10 | June 21, 2021 21:45 | June 22, 2021 21:45 | 1d | 2,177 | 8,758 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 77 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Fauquier 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 |
| 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 ÷ 31,801 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. Fauquier County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fauquier 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/fauquier-county