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2021 Patrick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Patrick County, VA went without power for an average of 13.4 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 622nd 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 Patrick 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 11:15 | February 20, 2021 19:30 | 7d 8h | 1,867 | 66K |
| 2 | March 27, 2021 19:30 | March 28, 2021 00:45 | 5h 15m | 1,669 | 1,500 |
| 3 | February 2, 2021 03:15 | February 2, 2021 23:45 | 20h 30m | 1,112 | 1,299 |
| 4 | July 26, 2021 14:30 | July 27, 2021 23:00 | 1d 8h | 951 | 3,446 |
| 5 | August 30, 2021 21:45 | August 31, 2021 23:30 | 1d 1h | 907 | 4,857 |
| 6 | May 8, 2021 15:15 | May 8, 2021 18:00 | 2h 45m | 893 | 1,793 |
| 7 | February 3, 2021 06:00 | February 4, 2021 19:45 | 1d 13h | 860 | 8,209 |
| 8 | October 26, 2021 10:15 | October 28, 2021 16:45 | 2d 6h | 598 | 6,586 |
| 9 | September 21, 2021 14:15 | September 23, 2021 06:15 | 1d 16h | 578 | 3,804 |
| 10 | February 23, 2021 06:45 | February 25, 2021 20:45 | 2d 14h | 562 | 2,275 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Patrick 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 |
| City of Danville - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,828 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. Patrick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Patrick 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/patrick-county