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2021 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 201K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 103rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1850th 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 Stafford 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 29, 2021 07:45 | July 31, 2021 00:45 | 1d 17h | 22,138 | 107K |
| 2 | February 3, 2021 03:00 | February 4, 2021 00:00 | 21h | 4,713 | 6,853 |
| 3 | October 25, 2021 17:00 | October 25, 2021 18:30 | 1h 30m | 3,084 | 1,518 |
| 4 | March 28, 2021 11:00 | March 28, 2021 14:15 | 3h 15m | 3,016 | 1,180 |
| 5 | August 11, 2021 21:00 | August 12, 2021 14:15 | 17h 15m | 2,957 | 5,293 |
| 6 | August 16, 2021 21:15 | August 16, 2021 22:45 | 1h 30m | 2,852 | 2,057 |
| 7 | October 16, 2021 18:45 | October 16, 2021 21:30 | 2h 45m | 2,515 | 1,881 |
| 8 | July 2, 2021 08:15 | July 2, 2021 17:00 | 8h 45m | 2,483 | 3,049 |
| 9 | April 30, 2021 15:00 | May 1, 2021 05:30 | 14h 30m | 2,175 | 4,186 |
| 10 | August 13, 2021 22:30 | August 15, 2021 07:15 | 1d 8h | 2,057 | 6,762 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 68 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Stafford 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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 5.9 hrs | 2.50 | 2.6 hrs | 1.70 |
| 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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county