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2025 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 31.1 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 180th 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 Bedford 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 | September 16, 2025 13:00 | September 17, 2025 00:30 | 11h 30m | 19,478 | 33K |
| 2 | February 11, 2025 22:30 | February 19, 2025 00:15 | 7d 1h | 17,311 | 696K |
| 3 | January 5, 2025 21:15 | January 11, 2025 07:15 | 5d 10h | 11,384 | 454K |
| 4 | May 13, 2025 05:45 | May 16, 2025 00:45 | 2d 19h | 4,829 | 41K |
| 5 | April 26, 2025 07:45 | April 27, 2025 02:00 | 18h 15m | 3,368 | 16K |
| 6 | July 18, 2025 19:45 | July 20, 2025 03:45 | 1d 8h | 2,981 | 20K |
| 7 | October 30, 2025 03:15 | October 30, 2025 07:15 | 4h | 2,676 | 6,691 |
| 8 | December 29, 2025 09:30 | December 31, 2025 05:45 | 1d 20h | 2,364 | 40K |
| 9 | March 16, 2025 14:45 | March 18, 2025 00:15 | 1d 9h | 1,617 | 8,638 |
| 10 | May 29, 2025 03:45 | May 29, 2025 21:30 | 17h 45m | 1,299 | 2,396 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 99 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 6.5 hrs | 3.12 | 5.2 hrs | 2.81 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 1.33 | 2.3 hrs | 0.92 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county