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2021 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 189K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1180th 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 Washington 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 | June 28, 2021 16:15 | June 29, 2021 22:30 | 1d 6h | 5,369 | 22K |
| 2 | July 12, 2021 22:15 | July 14, 2021 02:30 | 1d 4h | 2,378 | 9,183 |
| 3 | June 7, 2021 11:45 | June 9, 2021 01:00 | 1d 13h | 1,929 | 8,395 |
| 4 | September 21, 2021 01:30 | September 22, 2021 01:45 | 1d | 1,865 | 3,798 |
| 5 | August 11, 2021 11:00 | August 13, 2021 19:30 | 2d 8h | 1,617 | 6,332 |
| 6 | May 3, 2021 14:00 | May 4, 2021 03:15 | 13h 15m | 1,397 | 504 |
| 7 | May 27, 2021 17:15 | May 28, 2021 03:30 | 10h 15m | 1,304 | 716 |
| 8 | August 1, 2021 09:00 | August 1, 2021 15:15 | 6h 15m | 1,161 | 1,664 |
| 9 | June 15, 2021 15:15 | June 16, 2021 19:30 | 1d 4h | 922 | 5,369 |
| 10 | February 26, 2021 20:00 | February 27, 2021 03:30 | 7h 30m | 908 | 1,000 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 76 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
| 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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county