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2021 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 10.9 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 730th 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 Russell 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 | January 27, 2021 23:15 | January 28, 2021 01:15 | 2h | 7,012 | 9,843 |
| 2 | March 21, 2021 22:15 | March 22, 2021 10:30 | 12h 15m | 5,631 | 27K |
| 3 | February 24, 2021 19:30 | February 25, 2021 04:30 | 9h | 2,395 | 4,674 |
| 4 | March 19, 2021 18:30 | March 19, 2021 20:15 | 1h 45m | 2,390 | 2,395 |
| 5 | April 8, 2021 12:30 | April 8, 2021 19:30 | 7h | 2,204 | 3,352 |
| 6 | July 18, 2021 09:45 | July 18, 2021 13:15 | 3h 30m | 1,272 | 4,452 |
| 7 | August 10, 2021 13:15 | August 10, 2021 23:30 | 10h 15m | 984 | 2,490 |
| 8 | January 27, 2021 13:15 | January 27, 2021 22:30 | 9h 15m | 803 | 5,219 |
| 9 | July 1, 2021 23:30 | July 3, 2021 01:00 | 1d 1h | 715 | 5,200 |
| 10 | September 1, 2021 08:15 | September 1, 2021 18:00 | 9h 45m | 715 | 2,939 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 63 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Russell 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 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county