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2021 Hanover County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hanover County, VA went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 458K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 835th 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 Hanover 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 10:15 | February 17, 2021 01:45 | 3d 15h | 15,936 | 304K |
| 2 | May 4, 2021 20:00 | May 6, 2021 01:30 | 1d 5h | 5,304 | 12K |
| 3 | June 24, 2021 09:15 | June 24, 2021 09:30 | 15m | 4,682 | 1,171 |
| 4 | May 20, 2021 10:00 | May 20, 2021 19:30 | 9h 30m | 4,474 | 12K |
| 5 | September 16, 2021 19:15 | September 17, 2021 07:45 | 12h 30m | 3,646 | 1,307 |
| 6 | August 10, 2021 22:45 | August 11, 2021 11:45 | 13h | 3,645 | 4,578 |
| 7 | October 4, 2021 10:30 | October 4, 2021 16:30 | 6h | 3,502 | 1,849 |
| 8 | June 24, 2021 02:30 | June 24, 2021 03:15 | 45m | 2,837 | 1,225 |
| 9 | March 31, 2021 17:30 | March 31, 2021 19:30 | 2h | 2,762 | 896 |
| 10 | June 9, 2021 21:30 | June 10, 2021 01:45 | 4h 15m | 2,718 | 1,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 79 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Hanover 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 |
| 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 ÷ 49,633 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. Hanover County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hanover 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/hanover-county