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2024 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1620th 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 Orange 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 | April 12, 2024 04:30 | April 12, 2024 22:15 | 17h 45m | 4,541 | 33K |
| 2 | September 25, 2024 13:45 | September 25, 2024 17:30 | 3h 45m | 1,434 | 484 |
| 3 | June 30, 2024 12:15 | July 1, 2024 05:30 | 17h 15m | 1,260 | 4,935 |
| 4 | July 15, 2024 22:00 | July 16, 2024 09:00 | 11h | 1,147 | 3,640 |
| 5 | August 3, 2024 18:00 | August 4, 2024 09:00 | 15h | 1,057 | 2,138 |
| 6 | May 15, 2024 03:45 | May 15, 2024 05:45 | 2h | 1,052 | 2,104 |
| 7 | May 18, 2024 12:00 | May 18, 2024 16:00 | 4h | 1,052 | 1,609 |
| 8 | May 27, 2024 00:15 | May 28, 2024 17:15 | 1d 17h | 994 | 4,380 |
| 9 | October 1, 2024 22:15 | October 2, 2024 01:15 | 3h | 990 | 1,274 |
| 10 | March 20, 2024 11:15 | March 21, 2024 04:15 | 17h | 806 | 2,328 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 55 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 2.16 | 3.1 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county