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2021 Spotsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Spotsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 230K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1619th 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 Spotsylvania 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 | July 14, 2021 17:45 | July 16, 2021 00:45 | 1d 7h | 7,882 | 29K |
| 2 | May 4, 2021 12:30 | May 5, 2021 22:45 | 1d 10h | 7,252 | 36K |
| 3 | June 30, 2021 18:45 | June 30, 2021 19:15 | 30m | 4,722 | 1,684 |
| 4 | January 25, 2021 17:00 | January 25, 2021 23:00 | 6h | 4,714 | 4,126 |
| 5 | February 13, 2021 16:15 | February 16, 2021 19:00 | 3d 2h | 4,204 | 67K |
| 6 | August 15, 2021 03:00 | August 15, 2021 20:45 | 17h 45m | 3,996 | 2,669 |
| 7 | February 1, 2021 17:15 | February 2, 2021 01:30 | 8h 15m | 3,585 | 2,280 |
| 8 | July 1, 2021 15:30 | July 2, 2021 03:30 | 12h | 3,326 | 7,682 |
| 9 | October 19, 2021 14:30 | October 19, 2021 22:45 | 8h 15m | 2,651 | 3,338 |
| 10 | June 20, 2021 12:45 | June 20, 2021 21:15 | 8h 30m | 2,633 | 1,674 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 79 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Spotsylvania 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 |
| 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 ÷ 62,155 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. Spotsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spotsylvania 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/spotsylvania-county