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2021 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 18.4 hours, a total of 596K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 468th 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 Franklin 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 | February 13, 2021 11:15 | February 20, 2021 19:30 | 7d 8h | 13,189 | 550K |
| 2 | February 12, 2021 12:45 | February 13, 2021 02:45 | 14h | 1,734 | 498 |
| 3 | January 18, 2021 14:45 | January 18, 2021 16:30 | 1h 45m | 1,652 | 2,891 |
| 4 | April 20, 2021 13:45 | April 22, 2021 01:45 | 1d 12h | 1,290 | 3,613 |
| 5 | March 25, 2021 12:30 | March 25, 2021 18:15 | 5h 45m | 824 | 2,831 |
| 6 | February 27, 2021 08:00 | February 27, 2021 17:00 | 9h | 724 | 2,558 |
| 7 | April 5, 2021 11:00 | April 5, 2021 23:30 | 12h 30m | 666 | 1,480 |
| 8 | March 15, 2021 12:15 | March 15, 2021 13:30 | 1h 15m | 599 | 451 |
| 9 | April 23, 2021 13:00 | April 23, 2021 17:45 | 4h 45m | 531 | 1,072 |
| 10 | March 26, 2021 14:45 | March 27, 2021 00:15 | 9h 30m | 513 | 1,571 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Franklin 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county