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2015 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 14.8 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 171st 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 Bland 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 | December 19, 2015 15:00 | December 19, 2015 20:15 | 5h 15m | 2,824 | 7,827 |
| 2 | January 6, 2015 20:15 | January 6, 2015 23:00 | 2h 45m | 2,131 | 3,850 |
| 3 | January 8, 2015 11:30 | January 8, 2015 17:00 | 5h 30m | 1,052 | 3,544 |
| 4 | October 7, 2015 15:00 | October 7, 2015 17:45 | 2h 45m | 1,046 | 1,325 |
| 5 | May 7, 2015 13:30 | May 7, 2015 16:30 | 3h | 1,043 | 2,608 |
| 6 | April 16, 2015 13:30 | April 16, 2015 19:45 | 6h 15m | 778 | 4,862 |
| 7 | July 2, 2015 17:45 | July 2, 2015 18:45 | 1h | 772 | 771 |
| 8 | July 18, 2015 14:15 | July 18, 2015 16:00 | 1h 45m | 759 | 1,328 |
| 9 | August 12, 2015 19:15 | August 12, 2015 22:00 | 2h 45m | 754 | 2,074 |
| 10 | January 2, 2015 01:45 | January 2, 2015 04:30 | 2h 45m | 743 | 1,673 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 30 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county