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2024 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 258K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1891st 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 Stafford 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 29, 2024 23:00 | September 1, 2024 11:30 | 2d 12h | 8,516 | 85K |
| 2 | December 7, 2024 05:15 | December 7, 2024 09:45 | 4h 30m | 6,239 | 7,248 |
| 3 | September 6, 2024 20:30 | September 6, 2024 23:45 | 3h 15m | 3,772 | 4,176 |
| 4 | April 13, 2024 11:45 | April 14, 2024 12:45 | 1d 1h | 3,770 | 5,759 |
| 5 | July 13, 2024 22:30 | July 14, 2024 11:00 | 12h 30m | 3,673 | 5,326 |
| 6 | November 21, 2024 12:45 | November 21, 2024 19:15 | 6h 30m | 3,658 | 1,845 |
| 7 | March 10, 2024 21:15 | March 12, 2024 05:15 | 1d 8h | 3,496 | 2,271 |
| 8 | July 4, 2024 21:00 | July 5, 2024 02:15 | 5h 15m | 3,217 | 1,674 |
| 9 | April 12, 2024 05:30 | April 13, 2024 02:30 | 21h | 3,048 | 11K |
| 10 | June 26, 2024 21:30 | June 27, 2024 22:15 | 1d | 2,644 | 4,648 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 83 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Stafford 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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 | 62 min | 0.77 |
| 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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county