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2015 Highland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Highland County, VA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 2,169 customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 100th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 1439th 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 Highland 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 | October 21, 2015 17:00 | October 21, 2015 18:30 | 1h 30m | 678 | 847 |
| 2 | October 3, 2015 02:30 | October 3, 2015 08:00 | 5h 30m | 184 | 1,012 |
| 3 | October 16, 2015 09:45 | October 16, 2015 10:00 | 15m | 64 | 16 |
| 4 | October 20, 2015 13:45 | October 20, 2015 15:00 | 1h 15m | 56 | 70 |
| 5 | September 9, 2015 15:15 | September 9, 2015 17:15 | 2h | 54 | 108 |
| 6 | November 17, 2015 15:30 | November 17, 2015 17:45 | 2h 15m | 12 | 27 |
| 7 | September 22, 2015 09:45 | September 22, 2015 19:15 | 9h 30m | 6 | 56 |
| 8 | November 13, 2015 03:30 | November 13, 2015 08:30 | 5h | 4 | 20 |
| 9 | September 25, 2015 12:15 | September 25, 2015 12:30 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | October 16, 2015 01:30 | October 16, 2015 04:45 | 3h 15m | 2 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 2 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 Highland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.60 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 2.13 | 2.9 hrs | 1.66 |
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 ÷ 1,392 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. Highland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highland 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/highland-county