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2024 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 754th 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 Lancaster 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 3, 2024 22:30 | August 4, 2024 17:45 | 19h 15m | 2,908 | 18K |
| 2 | May 1, 2024 18:15 | May 1, 2024 21:15 | 3h | 2,132 | 3,465 |
| 3 | November 19, 2024 21:45 | November 19, 2024 23:45 | 2h | 1,941 | 2,915 |
| 4 | July 7, 2024 02:30 | July 7, 2024 04:00 | 1h 30m | 1,792 | 2,614 |
| 5 | May 15, 2024 16:00 | May 15, 2024 16:15 | 15m | 1,556 | 389 |
| 6 | November 25, 2024 18:45 | November 25, 2024 20:30 | 1h 45m | 1,385 | 1,731 |
| 7 | August 9, 2024 06:30 | August 9, 2024 18:45 | 12h 15m | 1,367 | 1,437 |
| 8 | January 17, 2024 10:45 | January 17, 2024 18:00 | 7h 15m | 1,362 | 2,754 |
| 9 | June 17, 2024 14:30 | June 17, 2024 15:00 | 30m | 1,362 | 681 |
| 10 | August 4, 2024 20:45 | August 5, 2024 06:30 | 9h 45m | 995 | 1,073 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 26 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county