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2025 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 344K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 1312th 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 Lynchburg city, 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 08:45 | January 10, 2025 23:45 | 4d 15h | 4,573 | 110K |
| 2 | September 4, 2025 18:15 | September 5, 2025 04:15 | 10h | 4,094 | 7,916 |
| 3 | February 12, 2025 07:00 | February 16, 2025 02:15 | 3d 19h | 3,517 | 85K |
| 4 | March 16, 2025 15:00 | March 18, 2025 02:30 | 1d 11h | 3,208 | 23K |
| 5 | February 16, 2025 14:15 | February 18, 2025 00:45 | 1d 10h | 2,825 | 18K |
| 6 | October 24, 2025 12:45 | October 24, 2025 17:30 | 4h 45m | 2,791 | 3,779 |
| 7 | January 29, 2025 13:00 | January 29, 2025 15:00 | 2h | 1,956 | 2,933 |
| 8 | May 2, 2025 12:00 | May 2, 2025 16:30 | 4h 30m | 1,687 | 1,939 |
| 9 | August 27, 2025 22:45 | August 28, 2025 00:30 | 1h 45m | 1,573 | 422 |
| 10 | September 25, 2025 12:30 | September 25, 2025 16:45 | 4h 15m | 1,386 | 1,450 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 64 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Lynchburg city 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 |
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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, 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/lynchburg-city