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2021 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 23.3 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 363rd 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 Giles 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 | June 27, 2021 17:30 | June 28, 2021 19:00 | 1d 1h | 4,356 | 6,157 |
| 2 | April 1, 2021 16:45 | April 2, 2021 03:45 | 11h | 3,022 | 4,550 |
| 3 | May 28, 2021 17:15 | May 30, 2021 01:00 | 1d 7h | 2,575 | 12K |
| 4 | December 22, 2021 10:15 | December 22, 2021 18:45 | 8h 30m | 2,014 | 12K |
| 5 | December 8, 2021 18:00 | December 8, 2021 19:45 | 1h 45m | 1,843 | 3,225 |
| 6 | June 13, 2021 18:15 | June 15, 2021 18:00 | 1d 23h | 1,792 | 8,177 |
| 7 | September 4, 2021 13:30 | September 4, 2021 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1,021 | 1,026 |
| 8 | April 30, 2021 14:45 | May 1, 2021 22:00 | 1d 7h | 689 | 3,738 |
| 9 | February 13, 2021 16:15 | February 20, 2021 02:00 | 6d 9h | 656 | 7,361 |
| 10 | August 17, 2021 19:00 | August 20, 2021 21:30 | 3d 2h | 644 | 2,445 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 45 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Giles 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county