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2021 Lee County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lee County, VA went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 738th 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 Lee 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 10, 2021 03:30 | June 10, 2021 15:30 | 12h | 2,084 | 18K |
| 2 | July 24, 2021 12:00 | July 24, 2021 13:00 | 1h | 2,037 | 2,037 |
| 3 | March 3, 2021 14:45 | March 3, 2021 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,766 | 3,528 |
| 4 | December 17, 2021 13:45 | December 17, 2021 15:15 | 1h 30m | 1,404 | 707 |
| 5 | February 7, 2021 07:45 | February 9, 2021 14:15 | 2d 6h | 1,175 | 8,626 |
| 6 | September 22, 2021 14:15 | September 23, 2021 02:45 | 12h 30m | 854 | 2,561 |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 13:00 | December 12, 2021 02:15 | 13h 15m | 831 | 3,600 |
| 8 | March 1, 2021 19:30 | March 3, 2021 13:45 | 1d 18h | 714 | 5,281 |
| 9 | February 26, 2021 14:30 | February 26, 2021 14:45 | 15m | 524 | 131 |
| 10 | January 22, 2021 21:15 | January 25, 2021 19:15 | 2d 22h | 472 | 335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 68 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 |
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 ÷ 7,474 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. Lee County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county