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2021 Galax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Galax city, VA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 8,908 customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 119th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2384th 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 Galax city, 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 26, 2021 14:45 | May 26, 2021 16:00 | 1h 15m | 313 | 299 |
| 2 | August 2, 2021 18:45 | August 2, 2021 23:00 | 4h 15m | 307 | 562 |
| 3 | May 30, 2021 02:15 | May 30, 2021 04:30 | 2h 15m | 204 | 459 |
| 4 | March 6, 2021 04:45 | March 6, 2021 17:15 | 12h 30m | 188 | 178 |
| 5 | March 7, 2021 14:30 | March 7, 2021 22:00 | 7h 30m | 188 | 324 |
| 6 | January 28, 2021 10:45 | January 29, 2021 19:15 | 1d 8h | 154 | 1,423 |
| 7 | October 12, 2021 21:30 | October 12, 2021 22:45 | 1h 15m | 76 | 59 |
| 8 | July 25, 2021 20:30 | July 26, 2021 05:45 | 9h 15m | 75 | 668 |
| 9 | July 28, 2021 18:00 | July 28, 2021 18:30 | 30m | 74 | 37 |
| 10 | December 18, 2021 21:00 | December 18, 2021 23:30 | 2h 30m | 59 | 110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Galax city 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 |
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 ÷ 5,393 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. Galax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Galax city, 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/galax-city