County annual report · FIPS 51027
2015 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 565th 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 Buchanan 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 | July 13, 2015 10:30 | July 17, 2015 20:45 | 4d 10h | 945 | 22K |
| 2 | August 6, 2015 00:15 | August 6, 2015 20:00 | 19h 45m | 866 | 2,283 |
| 3 | October 5, 2015 12:00 | October 5, 2015 12:45 | 45m | 853 | 640 |
| 4 | August 16, 2015 17:30 | August 16, 2015 19:45 | 2h 15m | 841 | 1,892 |
| 5 | March 18, 2015 13:30 | March 18, 2015 18:00 | 4h 30m | 698 | 1,571 |
| 6 | September 28, 2015 22:45 | September 29, 2015 00:45 | 2h | 640 | 325 |
| 7 | June 21, 2015 21:00 | June 22, 2015 16:15 | 19h 15m | 631 | 940 |
| 8 | August 24, 2015 05:15 | August 24, 2015 06:00 | 45m | 579 | 434 |
| 9 | January 16, 2015 15:30 | January 16, 2015 20:30 | 5h | 501 | 720 |
| 10 | November 18, 2015 14:15 | November 18, 2015 15:00 | 45m | 485 | 308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 47 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county