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2015 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 521st 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 Amherst 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 | June 18, 2015 18:00 | June 20, 2015 00:00 | 1d 6h | 2,480 | 15K |
| 2 | February 20, 2015 12:30 | February 21, 2015 02:30 | 14h | 1,534 | 1,910 |
| 3 | September 12, 2015 16:45 | September 15, 2015 19:00 | 3d 2h | 1,491 | 4,078 |
| 4 | September 4, 2015 16:00 | September 4, 2015 17:00 | 1h | 1,292 | 357 |
| 5 | July 21, 2015 11:15 | July 21, 2015 16:00 | 4h 45m | 1,028 | 3,851 |
| 6 | August 20, 2015 00:45 | August 20, 2015 05:00 | 4h 15m | 984 | 1,222 |
| 7 | July 14, 2015 20:15 | July 15, 2015 17:30 | 21h 15m | 874 | 1,457 |
| 8 | October 16, 2015 14:15 | October 16, 2015 15:30 | 1h 15m | 776 | 388 |
| 9 | September 20, 2015 18:30 | September 20, 2015 22:15 | 3h 45m | 733 | 2,749 |
| 10 | February 2, 2015 17:45 | February 3, 2015 20:30 | 1d 2h | 685 | 3,344 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 46 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Amherst 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2015 | 11.7 hrs | 2.41 | 7.9 hrs | 2.21 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2015 | 8.6 hrs | 3.21 | 5.5 hrs | 2.82 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county