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2015 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 127 Virginia counties and 585th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alleghany County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 8, 2015 13:45 | August 8, 2015 18:15 | 4h 30m | 2,057 | 2,920 |
| 2 | July 15, 2015 00:30 | July 15, 2015 08:00 | 7h 30m | 927 | 2,082 |
| 3 | September 21, 2015 10:30 | September 21, 2015 11:45 | 1h 15m | 890 | 1,111 |
| 4 | October 30, 2015 22:45 | October 31, 2015 01:45 | 3h | 544 | 623 |
| 5 | September 29, 2015 19:30 | September 30, 2015 01:00 | 5h 30m | 491 | 2,577 |
| 6 | June 1, 2015 20:15 | June 2, 2015 00:15 | 4h | 486 | 1,217 |
| 7 | June 8, 2015 22:15 | June 9, 2015 02:30 | 4h 15m | 486 | 852 |
| 8 | May 16, 2015 18:00 | May 16, 2015 19:00 | 1h | 478 | 240 |
| 9 | October 20, 2015 13:45 | October 20, 2015 19:15 | 5h 30m | 477 | 143 |
| 10 | November 21, 2015 12:00 | November 21, 2015 13:45 | 1h 45m | 476 | 583 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Alleghany County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2015 | 9.6 hrs | 3.56 | 6.9 hrs | 2.96 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 2.13 | 2.9 hrs | 1.66 |
| 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany County, VA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/virginia/alleghany-county