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2024 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 124.4 hours, a total of 442K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 77th 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 Bland 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 27, 2024 05:00 | October 4, 2024 22:30 | 7d 17h | 3,958 | 340K |
| 2 | July 4, 2024 11:45 | July 4, 2024 21:00 | 9h 15m | 2,212 | 5,629 |
| 3 | May 26, 2024 21:15 | May 29, 2024 18:30 | 2d 21h | 1,852 | 25K |
| 4 | September 26, 2024 08:30 | September 26, 2024 18:30 | 10h | 1,126 | 4,493 |
| 5 | June 17, 2024 19:45 | June 18, 2024 18:30 | 22h 45m | 1,089 | 1,447 |
| 6 | July 5, 2024 17:30 | July 6, 2024 16:15 | 22h 45m | 1,010 | 5,273 |
| 7 | July 14, 2024 03:45 | July 14, 2024 06:45 | 3h | 777 | 2,331 |
| 8 | July 11, 2024 12:15 | July 11, 2024 21:30 | 9h 15m | 769 | 7,105 |
| 9 | July 16, 2024 15:00 | July 16, 2024 21:45 | 6h 45m | 769 | 1,934 |
| 10 | December 20, 2024 18:45 | December 20, 2024 19:15 | 30m | 764 | 382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 33 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county