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2015 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 558th 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 Franklin 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 17, 2015 20:45 | June 21, 2015 21:15 | 4d | 3,150 | 16K |
| 2 | June 21, 2015 22:00 | June 22, 2015 22:30 | 1d | 1,941 | 16K |
| 3 | June 14, 2015 23:45 | June 15, 2015 18:30 | 18h 45m | 1,898 | 1,970 |
| 4 | May 1, 2015 09:00 | May 1, 2015 18:30 | 9h 30m | 1,890 | 2,195 |
| 5 | September 9, 2015 21:30 | September 10, 2015 06:00 | 8h 30m | 1,709 | 2,843 |
| 6 | May 18, 2015 14:15 | May 19, 2015 00:15 | 10h | 1,570 | 10K |
| 7 | February 20, 2015 09:00 | February 20, 2015 21:45 | 12h 45m | 1,502 | 8,067 |
| 8 | January 8, 2015 11:15 | January 8, 2015 20:30 | 9h 15m | 1,381 | 2,997 |
| 9 | May 28, 2015 15:00 | May 28, 2015 15:15 | 15m | 1,367 | 342 |
| 10 | February 22, 2015 03:45 | February 22, 2015 18:15 | 14h 30m | 1,080 | 2,297 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 69 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Franklin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county