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2024 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 176K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2109th 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 Lynchburg city, 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 3, 2024 16:45 | September 3, 2024 23:15 | 6h 30m | 2,492 | 6,237 |
| 2 | April 29, 2024 18:15 | April 29, 2024 22:15 | 4h | 2,422 | 4,089 |
| 3 | August 8, 2024 13:30 | August 10, 2024 22:15 | 2d 8h | 1,880 | 39K |
| 4 | May 26, 2024 23:15 | May 29, 2024 19:15 | 2d 20h | 1,839 | 17K |
| 5 | June 8, 2024 10:45 | June 8, 2024 17:00 | 6h 15m | 1,600 | 2,508 |
| 6 | February 25, 2024 04:00 | February 25, 2024 07:45 | 3h 45m | 1,508 | 1,025 |
| 7 | March 20, 2024 16:45 | March 20, 2024 23:30 | 6h 45m | 1,277 | 2,481 |
| 8 | August 12, 2024 11:45 | August 13, 2024 00:00 | 12h 15m | 1,267 | 805 |
| 9 | August 13, 2024 08:15 | August 13, 2024 13:15 | 5h | 1,240 | 3,634 |
| 10 | February 8, 2024 13:45 | February 8, 2024 21:00 | 7h 15m | 1,229 | 337 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 76 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Lynchburg city 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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, 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/lynchburg-city