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2024 Bath County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bath County, VA went without power for an average of 28.7 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 339th 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 Bath 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 8, 2024 19:30 | May 9, 2024 12:45 | 17h 15m | 3,818 | 3,717 |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 12:00 | September 29, 2024 21:45 | 2d 9h | 2,299 | 19K |
| 3 | March 10, 2024 13:30 | March 13, 2024 17:15 | 3d 3h | 1,554 | 11K |
| 4 | July 17, 2024 18:45 | July 17, 2024 23:45 | 5h | 1,518 | 1,737 |
| 5 | December 23, 2024 20:45 | December 23, 2024 23:15 | 2h 30m | 1,492 | 1,237 |
| 6 | February 12, 2024 21:00 | February 13, 2024 03:00 | 6h | 1,420 | 7,172 |
| 7 | March 5, 2024 07:45 | March 5, 2024 20:15 | 12h 30m | 1,196 | 2,291 |
| 8 | May 21, 2024 13:30 | May 21, 2024 17:45 | 4h 15m | 665 | 2,484 |
| 9 | January 17, 2024 04:45 | January 17, 2024 06:45 | 2h | 608 | 1,216 |
| 10 | April 18, 2024 18:15 | April 18, 2024 20:15 | 2h | 567 | 743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 31 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Bath 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,010 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. Bath County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bath 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/bath-county