State · EIA Form 861 · VA
Virginia
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Virginia utilities come from the federal annual survey. 16 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 156 and 365 minute tercile cuts (51 states with averages).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Virginia
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Virginia sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 279.3 minutes across 16 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning A & N Electric Coop lowest at 5.5 to Appalachian Power Co highest at 429.3.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Virginia 279.3
- Kansas 283.3
- Alabama 296.1
- Massachusetts 259.3
- Pennsylvania 255.3
- Louisiana 240.8
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Virginia vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
16 Top 51% more reporting utilities than 49% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability
All 16 electric utilities in Virginia with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Virginia
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Virginia utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Virginia
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A & N Electric Coop | Cooperative | 5.5 | 0.04 | 36,997 |
| 2 | City of Harrisonburg - (VA) | Municipal | 12.5 | 0.34 | 21,651 |
| 3 | City of Salem - (VA) | Municipal | 22.7 | 0.25 | 13,426 |
| 4 | Virginia Tech Electric Service | State | 33.3 | 0.30 | 6,913 |
| 5 | Bristol Virginia Utilities | Municipal | 43.2 | 0.46 | 16,401 |
| 6 | Northern Virginia Elec Coop | Cooperative | 110.7 | 0.88 | 180,323 |
| 7 | Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 128.8 | 1.14 | 20,290 |
| 8 | City of Manassas - (VA) | Municipal | 153.2 | 4.22 | 16,611 |
| 9 | Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | Cooperative | 182.8 | 1.73 | 99,494 |
| 10 | Rappahannock Electric Coop | Cooperative | 205.4 | 1.78 | 176,342 |
| 11 | Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 244.4 | 2.06 | 31,865 |
| 12 | Prince George Electric Coop | Cooperative | 258.7 | - | 12,360 |
| 13 | Southside Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 271.5 | 2.44 | 58,834 |
| 14 | Town of Bedford - (VA) | Municipal | 274.2 | 1.33 | 6,918 |
| 15 | Central Virginia Electric Coop | Cooperative | 334.0 | 2.82 | 39,371 |
| 16 | Appalachian Power Co | IOU | 429.3 | 1.65 | 545,980 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Virginia. Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (16 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (1.3M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Virginia roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Virginia: A & N Electric Coop (5.5 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Virginia: Appalachian Power Co (429.3 min)
- Ownership mix here: Cooperative leads (9 of 16 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Kansas (283.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Alabama (296.1 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Massachusetts (259.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Pennsylvania (255.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Louisiana (240.8 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.