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2025 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 15.2 hours, a total of 273K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 131 Virginia counties and 496th 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 Amherst 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 | January 6, 2025 08:30 | January 10, 2025 18:00 | 4d 9h | 4,708 | 102K |
| 2 | February 16, 2025 11:45 | February 18, 2025 18:15 | 2d 6h | 3,182 | 36K |
| 3 | April 3, 2025 13:30 | April 3, 2025 19:00 | 5h 30m | 3,111 | 6,843 |
| 4 | October 6, 2025 13:15 | October 6, 2025 16:45 | 3h 30m | 2,381 | 6,069 |
| 5 | April 30, 2025 23:15 | May 1, 2025 01:00 | 1h 45m | 2,379 | 2,385 |
| 6 | March 16, 2025 13:15 | March 18, 2025 02:00 | 1d 12h | 1,992 | 11K |
| 7 | December 19, 2025 03:15 | December 20, 2025 04:00 | 1d | 1,535 | 15K |
| 8 | September 4, 2025 20:30 | September 5, 2025 00:30 | 4h | 1,252 | 651 |
| 9 | June 19, 2025 03:45 | June 19, 2025 08:00 | 4h 15m | 1,093 | 2,084 |
| 10 | February 12, 2025 10:45 | February 15, 2025 14:30 | 3d 3h | 1,084 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 51 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Amherst 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 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county