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2021 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 17.2 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 492nd 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 Lancaster 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 15:00 | February 15, 2021 22:30 | 2d 7h | 3,021 | 42K |
| 2 | August 18, 2021 13:15 | August 18, 2021 18:45 | 5h 30m | 1,909 | 9,871 |
| 3 | August 3, 2021 16:45 | August 3, 2021 19:45 | 3h | 1,555 | 4,261 |
| 4 | June 11, 2021 21:30 | June 12, 2021 12:15 | 14h 45m | 1,277 | 7,911 |
| 5 | June 24, 2021 22:00 | June 25, 2021 01:00 | 3h | 1,161 | 2,028 |
| 6 | May 4, 2021 23:45 | May 6, 2021 02:45 | 1d 3h | 695 | 9,017 |
| 7 | July 30, 2021 19:45 | July 31, 2021 04:45 | 9h | 489 | 1,811 |
| 8 | July 18, 2021 00:45 | July 18, 2021 03:30 | 2h 45m | 445 | 491 |
| 9 | July 10, 2021 02:45 | July 10, 2021 18:30 | 15h 45m | 421 | 2,655 |
| 10 | June 10, 2021 05:15 | June 10, 2021 10:30 | 5h 15m | 214 | 1,124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 18 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 5.9 hrs | 2.50 | 2.6 hrs | 1.70 |
| 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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county