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2015 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 417th 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 Botetourt 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 | May 9, 2015 11:30 | May 9, 2015 15:15 | 3h 45m | 1,775 | 6,001 |
| 2 | February 14, 2015 19:45 | February 15, 2015 22:00 | 1d 2h | 1,248 | 8,191 |
| 3 | September 28, 2015 16:45 | September 29, 2015 19:45 | 1d 3h | 1,224 | 2,597 |
| 4 | September 26, 2015 22:30 | September 27, 2015 22:15 | 23h 45m | 1,217 | 4,794 |
| 5 | December 8, 2015 21:30 | December 9, 2015 01:00 | 3h 30m | 1,209 | 2,586 |
| 6 | July 6, 2015 12:45 | July 6, 2015 20:30 | 7h 45m | 1,206 | 2,796 |
| 7 | September 12, 2015 17:15 | September 12, 2015 22:00 | 4h 45m | 999 | 1,003 |
| 8 | August 12, 2015 20:45 | August 12, 2015 22:15 | 1h 30m | 995 | 1,493 |
| 9 | August 10, 2015 22:00 | August 11, 2015 06:15 | 8h 15m | 667 | 1,600 |
| 10 | May 7, 2015 13:45 | May 7, 2015 17:45 | 4h | 561 | 151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 43 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2015 | 9.6 hrs | 3.56 | 6.9 hrs | 2.96 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county