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2024 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 857th 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 Amherst 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 | August 8, 2024 12:30 | August 11, 2024 02:30 | 2d 14h | 2,819 | 36K |
| 2 | June 4, 2024 11:15 | June 5, 2024 02:00 | 14h 45m | 2,065 | 5,567 |
| 3 | September 26, 2024 07:30 | October 4, 2024 17:30 | 8d 10h | 1,875 | 26K |
| 4 | September 21, 2024 21:15 | September 22, 2024 23:45 | 1d 2h | 1,314 | 13K |
| 5 | February 28, 2024 21:00 | February 29, 2024 18:00 | 21h | 1,176 | 11K |
| 6 | April 30, 2024 12:30 | April 30, 2024 21:30 | 9h | 1,070 | 3,099 |
| 7 | December 5, 2024 13:30 | December 6, 2024 02:15 | 12h 45m | 953 | 9,301 |
| 8 | May 26, 2024 23:30 | May 28, 2024 23:45 | 2d | 945 | 11K |
| 9 | June 19, 2024 19:30 | June 19, 2024 21:45 | 2h 15m | 932 | 1,961 |
| 10 | February 14, 2024 13:30 | February 14, 2024 20:00 | 6h 30m | 916 | 935 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 68 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Amherst 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 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county