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2025 Nelson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Nelson County, VA went without power for an average of 35.1 hours, a total of 197K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 144th 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 Nelson 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 15, 2025 03:15 | September 15, 2025 09:00 | 5h 45m | 13,224 | 42K |
| 2 | June 28, 2025 04:00 | June 28, 2025 10:15 | 6h 15m | 6,607 | 36K |
| 3 | August 22, 2025 04:00 | August 22, 2025 05:00 | 1h | 4,628 | 4,628 |
| 4 | August 22, 2025 08:15 | August 22, 2025 10:15 | 2h | 4,628 | 9,256 |
| 5 | February 16, 2025 18:30 | February 18, 2025 23:45 | 2d 5h | 3,253 | 42K |
| 6 | February 6, 2025 11:45 | February 7, 2025 02:45 | 15h | 2,673 | 3,740 |
| 7 | January 6, 2025 10:45 | January 9, 2025 23:30 | 3d 12h | 1,272 | 17K |
| 8 | November 11, 2025 06:45 | November 11, 2025 16:00 | 9h 15m | 1,137 | 1,538 |
| 9 | December 29, 2025 15:45 | December 30, 2025 01:45 | 10h | 1,004 | 3,869 |
| 10 | May 30, 2025 23:15 | May 31, 2025 11:30 | 12h 15m | 907 | 2,097 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Nelson 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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.95 | 3.8 hrs | 2.32 |
| 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 ÷ 5,606 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county