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2024 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 54.0 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 184th 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 Alleghany 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 26, 2024 22:30 | May 29, 2024 23:45 | 3d 1h | 3,443 | 62K |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 00:00 | October 2, 2024 18:30 | 5d 18h | 1,740 | 70K |
| 3 | May 8, 2024 16:00 | May 9, 2024 01:30 | 9h 30m | 1,080 | 6,086 |
| 4 | August 22, 2024 22:30 | August 22, 2024 23:15 | 45m | 904 | 678 |
| 5 | May 6, 2024 18:30 | May 7, 2024 11:00 | 16h 30m | 798 | 1,318 |
| 6 | November 20, 2024 21:30 | November 21, 2024 18:15 | 20h 45m | 774 | 4,459 |
| 7 | January 10, 2024 10:15 | January 10, 2024 21:00 | 10h 45m | 745 | 1,633 |
| 8 | November 21, 2024 20:00 | November 22, 2024 17:30 | 21h 30m | 576 | 804 |
| 9 | December 10, 2024 14:30 | December 10, 2024 16:00 | 1h 30m | 576 | 171 |
| 10 | July 5, 2024 21:45 | July 6, 2024 19:00 | 21h 15m | 575 | 4,808 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 51 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county