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2024 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 543K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 786th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 27, 2024 00:15 | May 29, 2024 10:30 | 2d 10h | 21,750 | 139K |
| 2 | January 13, 2024 14:00 | January 14, 2024 10:15 | 20h 15m | 6,910 | 21K |
| 3 | November 20, 2024 20:45 | November 22, 2024 01:45 | 1d 5h | 6,111 | 23K |
| 4 | August 8, 2024 20:15 | August 11, 2024 02:00 | 2d 5h | 4,424 | 54K |
| 5 | February 22, 2024 14:45 | February 22, 2024 17:30 | 2h 45m | 4,285 | 2,932 |
| 6 | March 15, 2024 18:45 | March 16, 2024 07:30 | 12h 45m | 3,700 | 1,645 |
| 7 | October 11, 2024 08:15 | October 11, 2024 12:30 | 4h 15m | 3,091 | 937 |
| 8 | October 6, 2024 17:00 | October 8, 2024 18:15 | 2d 1h | 3,080 | 5,482 |
| 9 | July 16, 2024 03:00 | July 19, 2024 01:30 | 2d 22h | 2,797 | 19K |
| 10 | September 26, 2024 02:30 | September 29, 2024 22:30 | 3d 20h | 2,697 | 41K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 128 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 29.5 hrs | 2.79 | 7.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 2.16 | 3.1 hrs | 1.75 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.8 hrs | 2.61 | 5.8 hrs | 2.61 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/virginia/albemarle-county