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2024 Nelson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Nelson County, VA went without power for an average of 25.8 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 379th 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 Nelson 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 21, 2024 21:15 | September 23, 2024 14:00 | 1d 16h | 4,172 | 19K |
| 2 | May 18, 2024 06:15 | May 18, 2024 20:15 | 14h | 2,376 | 15K |
| 3 | July 16, 2024 21:00 | July 17, 2024 18:45 | 21h 45m | 2,337 | 7,483 |
| 4 | November 21, 2024 01:00 | November 21, 2024 16:00 | 15h | 2,216 | 4,218 |
| 5 | June 6, 2024 19:00 | June 7, 2024 02:30 | 7h 30m | 1,835 | 2,243 |
| 6 | May 26, 2024 23:45 | May 28, 2024 01:45 | 1d 2h | 1,834 | 6,242 |
| 7 | March 9, 2024 19:30 | March 11, 2024 19:00 | 1d 23h | 1,754 | 5,431 |
| 8 | August 8, 2024 18:45 | August 10, 2024 22:30 | 2d 3h | 1,083 | 18K |
| 9 | September 27, 2024 13:30 | September 29, 2024 01:45 | 1d 12h | 1,049 | 15K |
| 10 | January 13, 2024 13:30 | January 13, 2024 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,028 | 2,120 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 49 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Nelson 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.8 hrs | 2.61 | 5.8 hrs | 2.61 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.95 | 3.8 hrs | 2.32 |
| 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 ÷ 5,606 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county