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2023 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 120th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2471st 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 Stafford 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 | September 9, 2023 20:30 | September 10, 2023 09:30 | 13h | 5,076 | 13K |
| 2 | June 23, 2023 20:00 | June 24, 2023 11:00 | 15h | 4,890 | 9,567 |
| 3 | June 25, 2023 01:00 | June 25, 2023 06:30 | 5h 30m | 4,442 | 5,442 |
| 4 | December 28, 2023 14:00 | December 28, 2023 18:45 | 4h 45m | 4,330 | 3,402 |
| 5 | April 28, 2023 11:00 | April 29, 2023 03:15 | 16h 15m | 3,683 | 3,892 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 08:45 | April 1, 2023 17:45 | 9h | 3,659 | 2,717 |
| 7 | April 22, 2023 18:00 | April 23, 2023 03:15 | 9h 15m | 2,840 | 9,954 |
| 8 | October 24, 2023 00:00 | October 24, 2023 02:30 | 2h 30m | 2,560 | 813 |
| 9 | March 10, 2023 21:15 | March 11, 2023 06:30 | 9h 15m | 2,388 | 2,403 |
| 10 | July 28, 2023 22:00 | July 29, 2023 14:45 | 16h 45m | 1,807 | 2,856 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 51 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Stafford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.88 | 40 min | 0.57 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/stafford-county