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2024 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 578K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 783rd 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 Bedford 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 | September 26, 2024 03:00 | October 3, 2024 17:15 | 7d 14h | 15,420 | 182K |
| 2 | August 1, 2024 20:00 | August 5, 2024 00:15 | 3d 4h | 4,990 | 34K |
| 3 | April 11, 2024 21:45 | April 13, 2024 02:00 | 1d 4h | 3,578 | 20K |
| 4 | August 30, 2024 00:30 | August 31, 2024 18:15 | 1d 17h | 2,913 | 24K |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 22:00 | May 28, 2024 23:45 | 2d 1h | 2,883 | 43K |
| 6 | November 20, 2024 23:45 | November 24, 2024 22:45 | 3d 23h | 2,473 | 38K |
| 7 | September 2, 2024 11:45 | September 3, 2024 23:15 | 1d 11h | 2,123 | 7,691 |
| 8 | March 10, 2024 09:45 | March 11, 2024 23:30 | 1d 13h | 1,669 | 15K |
| 9 | July 19, 2024 04:00 | July 19, 2024 21:30 | 17h 30m | 1,618 | 7,816 |
| 10 | June 14, 2024 21:00 | June 15, 2024 00:00 | 3h | 1,585 | 2,092 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 101 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 6.5 hrs | 3.12 | 5.2 hrs | 2.81 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 1.33 | 2.3 hrs | 0.92 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county