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2021 Shenandoah County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Shenandoah County, VA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1568th 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 Shenandoah 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 | September 1, 2021 03:45 | September 2, 2021 04:45 | 1d 1h | 2,192 | 7,447 |
| 2 | May 18, 2021 13:15 | May 18, 2021 19:30 | 6h 15m | 2,053 | 687 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 20:15 | June 22, 2021 04:45 | 8h 30m | 1,895 | 3,510 |
| 4 | April 27, 2021 17:45 | April 28, 2021 01:15 | 7h 30m | 1,879 | 1,793 |
| 5 | October 26, 2021 14:15 | October 26, 2021 15:30 | 1h 15m | 1,822 | 1,463 |
| 6 | March 29, 2021 00:30 | March 29, 2021 07:30 | 7h | 1,786 | 1,841 |
| 7 | June 13, 2021 15:15 | June 13, 2021 23:15 | 8h | 1,462 | 2,855 |
| 8 | July 21, 2021 09:15 | July 21, 2021 23:15 | 14h | 1,406 | 1,646 |
| 9 | January 20, 2021 00:30 | January 20, 2021 05:45 | 5h 15m | 1,368 | 567 |
| 10 | October 4, 2021 21:30 | October 5, 2021 16:00 | 18h 30m | 1,155 | 4,379 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 60 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Shenandoah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.6 hrs | 2.14 | 2.7 hrs | 1.54 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | 2.21 | 2.8 hrs | 1.94 |
| 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 ÷ 18,066 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. Shenandoah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shenandoah 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/shenandoah-county