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2021 Scott County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Scott County, VA went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 680th 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 Scott 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 | April 29, 2021 17:00 | April 30, 2021 01:15 | 8h 15m | 2,806 | 12K |
| 2 | October 3, 2021 22:30 | October 4, 2021 20:45 | 22h 15m | 1,189 | 6,766 |
| 3 | September 8, 2021 13:45 | September 8, 2021 20:30 | 6h 45m | 990 | 885 |
| 4 | September 22, 2021 12:45 | September 23, 2021 02:30 | 13h 45m | 840 | 3,680 |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 15:15 | December 13, 2021 02:30 | 1d 11h | 794 | 5,877 |
| 6 | March 27, 2021 15:30 | March 29, 2021 21:00 | 2d 5h | 740 | 7,233 |
| 7 | September 19, 2021 21:00 | September 20, 2021 17:45 | 20h 45m | 724 | 5,258 |
| 8 | December 5, 2021 15:30 | December 5, 2021 21:00 | 5h 30m | 688 | 2,761 |
| 9 | June 29, 2021 11:15 | June 29, 2021 22:45 | 11h 30m | 670 | 2,595 |
| 10 | June 10, 2021 04:15 | June 12, 2021 14:15 | 2d 10h | 626 | 5,751 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 68 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Scott 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2021 | 86 min | 0.95 | 58 min | 0.84 |
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 ÷ 11,959 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county