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2024 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 20.3 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 497th 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 Buckingham 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 | January 9, 2024 21:15 | January 10, 2024 22:45 | 1d 1h | 5,518 | 42K |
| 2 | April 12, 2024 02:00 | April 12, 2024 15:00 | 13h | 1,990 | 5,219 |
| 3 | September 18, 2024 00:15 | September 18, 2024 16:00 | 15h 45m | 1,932 | 7,907 |
| 4 | February 28, 2024 20:45 | February 28, 2024 22:15 | 1h 30m | 1,850 | 2,391 |
| 5 | January 14, 2024 19:30 | January 14, 2024 23:30 | 4h | 1,842 | 6,552 |
| 6 | August 14, 2024 19:00 | August 14, 2024 23:15 | 4h 15m | 1,534 | 2,141 |
| 7 | May 26, 2024 23:30 | May 27, 2024 16:15 | 16h 45m | 1,003 | 3,727 |
| 8 | September 21, 2024 21:30 | September 22, 2024 10:00 | 12h 30m | 797 | 3,196 |
| 9 | August 8, 2024 18:45 | August 9, 2024 21:45 | 1d 3h | 619 | 4,137 |
| 10 | August 19, 2024 16:15 | August 19, 2024 21:45 | 5h 30m | 594 | 313 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 44 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 Buckingham 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county