County annual report · FIPS 51640
2015 Galax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Galax city, VA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 929th 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 Galax city, 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 | October 17, 2015 06:30 | October 17, 2015 13:15 | 6h 45m | 3,790 | 7,113 |
| 2 | December 6, 2015 07:45 | December 6, 2015 12:15 | 4h 30m | 986 | 510 |
| 3 | August 20, 2015 20:30 | August 20, 2015 22:00 | 1h 30m | 981 | 248 |
| 4 | September 26, 2015 13:45 | September 26, 2015 19:15 | 5h 30m | 538 | 2,199 |
| 5 | August 31, 2015 15:15 | August 31, 2015 16:00 | 45m | 536 | 402 |
| 6 | December 6, 2015 17:30 | December 6, 2015 18:45 | 1h 15m | 477 | 596 |
| 7 | June 18, 2015 13:00 | June 18, 2015 14:15 | 1h 15m | 306 | 383 |
| 8 | March 14, 2015 16:45 | March 14, 2015 17:30 | 45m | 242 | 67 |
| 9 | December 14, 2015 13:30 | December 14, 2015 15:45 | 2h 15m | 234 | 494 |
| 10 | November 18, 2015 23:00 | November 19, 2015 02:15 | 3h 15m | 230 | 551 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 16 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Galax city 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 ÷ 5,393 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. Galax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Galax city, 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/galax-city