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2025 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 247K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 101st worst of 131 Virginia counties and 1862nd 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 Stafford 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 19:00 | February 18, 2025 12:00 | 1d 17h | 10,962 | 58K |
| 2 | May 12, 2025 00:15 | May 12, 2025 07:45 | 7h 30m | 8,248 | 3,400 |
| 3 | May 5, 2025 20:30 | May 6, 2025 20:30 | 1d | 8,084 | 16K |
| 4 | December 1, 2025 14:30 | December 1, 2025 15:00 | 30m | 6,851 | 3,037 |
| 5 | August 11, 2025 22:00 | August 11, 2025 23:45 | 1h 45m | 6,140 | 2,457 |
| 6 | November 18, 2025 20:30 | November 19, 2025 08:45 | 12h 15m | 6,114 | 5,026 |
| 7 | July 26, 2025 20:30 | July 27, 2025 02:45 | 6h 15m | 5,041 | 10K |
| 8 | August 15, 2025 10:30 | August 15, 2025 18:30 | 8h | 4,538 | 3,001 |
| 9 | May 14, 2025 17:15 | May 14, 2025 22:30 | 5h 15m | 4,423 | 1,179 |
| 10 | May 13, 2025 06:00 | May 14, 2025 01:45 | 19h 45m | 4,226 | 4,544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 86 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Stafford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 2.16 | 3.1 hrs | 1.75 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 | 62 min | 0.77 |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county