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2023 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1538th 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 Lancaster 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 | August 15, 2023 20:15 | August 16, 2023 00:00 | 3h 45m | 1,371 | 874 |
| 2 | February 3, 2023 18:45 | February 3, 2023 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1,249 | 468 |
| 3 | April 16, 2023 01:00 | April 16, 2023 02:45 | 1h 45m | 1,244 | 2,177 |
| 4 | June 21, 2023 10:45 | June 22, 2023 21:30 | 1d 10h | 705 | 5,901 |
| 5 | August 27, 2023 13:00 | August 27, 2023 14:45 | 1h 45m | 611 | 814 |
| 6 | April 2, 2023 00:00 | April 2, 2023 04:30 | 4h 30m | 424 | 1,908 |
| 7 | September 23, 2023 06:45 | September 24, 2023 01:15 | 18h 30m | 318 | 2,143 |
| 8 | July 5, 2023 14:15 | July 5, 2023 20:30 | 6h 15m | 279 | 758 |
| 9 | June 17, 2023 00:15 | June 17, 2023 05:30 | 5h 15m | 268 | 292 |
| 10 | December 11, 2023 03:15 | December 11, 2023 19:30 | 16h 15m | 267 | 318 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county