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2015 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 202nd 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 Giles 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 | September 23, 2015 19:30 | September 23, 2015 20:00 | 30m | 3,107 | 1,554 |
| 2 | November 3, 2015 17:15 | November 3, 2015 18:45 | 1h 30m | 3,106 | 3,107 |
| 3 | December 21, 2015 15:45 | December 21, 2015 16:45 | 1h | 2,830 | 1,415 |
| 4 | December 21, 2015 18:00 | December 21, 2015 18:15 | 15m | 2,830 | 708 |
| 5 | December 21, 2015 14:30 | December 21, 2015 15:00 | 30m | 2,829 | 1,415 |
| 6 | February 15, 2015 03:45 | February 15, 2015 18:30 | 14h 45m | 2,505 | 3,190 |
| 7 | June 27, 2015 04:30 | June 28, 2015 21:45 | 1d 17h | 2,499 | 6,966 |
| 8 | October 2, 2015 18:15 | October 2, 2015 23:30 | 5h 15m | 1,650 | 1,622 |
| 9 | February 22, 2015 02:00 | February 22, 2015 08:00 | 6h | 1,559 | 3,796 |
| 10 | December 30, 2015 18:30 | December 30, 2015 21:30 | 3h | 1,549 | 4,646 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 45 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Giles 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 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county