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2023 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 362K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1025th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2023
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 28, 2023 23:15 | July 30, 2023 09:45 | 1d 10h | 6,679 | 45K |
| 2 | September 4, 2023 12:15 | September 4, 2023 19:30 | 7h 15m | 6,660 | 4,278 |
| 3 | July 3, 2023 04:15 | July 6, 2023 00:30 | 2d 20h | 6,046 | 15K |
| 4 | May 17, 2023 03:00 | May 17, 2023 19:00 | 16h | 4,570 | 6,342 |
| 5 | July 26, 2023 02:30 | July 26, 2023 08:15 | 5h 45m | 4,430 | 10K |
| 6 | December 17, 2023 23:30 | December 19, 2023 02:00 | 1d 2h | 3,649 | 6,619 |
| 7 | July 15, 2023 11:45 | July 18, 2023 22:45 | 3d 11h | 3,320 | 12K |
| 8 | July 7, 2023 02:30 | July 8, 2023 18:15 | 1d 15h | 3,264 | 7,047 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 18:15 | April 4, 2023 01:15 | 2d 7h | 3,184 | 31K |
| 10 | January 1, 2023 01:30 | January 1, 2023 20:45 | 19h 15m | 2,928 | 2,573 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 128 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2023 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 |
| 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/virginia/albemarle-county