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2024 Lee County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lee County, VA went without power for an average of 53.9 hours, a total of 403K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 185th 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 Lee 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 01:30 | October 4, 2024 16:15 | 7d 14h | 7,683 | 330K |
| 2 | March 14, 2024 13:45 | March 14, 2024 20:30 | 6h 45m | 2,339 | 1,640 |
| 3 | March 14, 2024 11:15 | March 14, 2024 12:15 | 1h | 2,170 | 1,154 |
| 4 | May 18, 2024 19:30 | May 19, 2024 07:00 | 11h 30m | 1,826 | 3,802 |
| 5 | June 27, 2024 12:15 | June 27, 2024 20:00 | 7h 45m | 1,666 | 1,282 |
| 6 | July 18, 2024 10:30 | July 18, 2024 10:45 | 15m | 1,466 | 367 |
| 7 | June 16, 2024 21:45 | June 16, 2024 22:45 | 1h | 1,431 | 360 |
| 8 | July 18, 2024 04:30 | July 18, 2024 09:30 | 5h | 1,428 | 2,632 |
| 9 | October 16, 2024 06:15 | October 16, 2024 09:15 | 3h | 1,394 | 1,933 |
| 10 | September 25, 2024 23:15 | September 26, 2024 07:00 | 7h 45m | 1,218 | 3,222 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 85 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2024 | 21.9 hrs | 1.97 | 1.9 hrs | 1.03 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2024 | 8.4 hrs | 4.97 | 1.7 hrs | 3.38 |
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 ÷ 7,474 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. Lee County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county