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2025 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 546K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 648th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 16, 2025 16:00 | February 20, 2025 21:15 | 4d 5h | 25,027 | 241K |
| 2 | September 16, 2025 06:30 | September 16, 2025 21:45 | 15h 15m | 9,225 | 3,749 |
| 3 | May 13, 2025 05:45 | May 13, 2025 08:15 | 2h 30m | 7,046 | 8,454 |
| 4 | February 6, 2025 10:30 | February 9, 2025 02:15 | 2d 15h | 6,236 | 25K |
| 5 | September 16, 2025 23:15 | September 17, 2025 03:00 | 3h 45m | 5,400 | 1,369 |
| 6 | July 12, 2025 16:30 | July 14, 2025 07:30 | 1d 15h | 4,847 | 13K |
| 7 | August 13, 2025 21:15 | August 15, 2025 00:30 | 1d 3h | 4,543 | 7,684 |
| 8 | July 27, 2025 00:15 | July 29, 2025 20:45 | 2d 20h | 3,663 | 18K |
| 9 | May 13, 2025 09:30 | May 14, 2025 23:15 | 1d 13h | 3,573 | 12K |
| 10 | June 19, 2025 18:45 | June 21, 2025 00:00 | 1d 5h | 3,563 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 132 reached 100+ customers, 26 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/virginia/albemarle-county