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2015 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 507th 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 Lancaster 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 3, 2015 11:30 | June 3, 2015 13:30 | 2h | 1,298 | 659 |
| 2 | December 29, 2015 23:00 | December 30, 2015 01:30 | 2h 30m | 1,208 | 1,329 |
| 3 | October 4, 2015 12:15 | October 4, 2015 15:45 | 3h 30m | 1,207 | 2,153 |
| 4 | November 26, 2015 00:30 | November 26, 2015 03:30 | 3h | 1,201 | 3,466 |
| 5 | February 15, 2015 01:45 | February 15, 2015 12:00 | 10h 15m | 641 | 2,750 |
| 6 | April 10, 2015 23:00 | April 11, 2015 03:15 | 4h 15m | 462 | 605 |
| 7 | June 9, 2015 03:30 | June 9, 2015 05:45 | 2h 15m | 437 | 983 |
| 8 | December 24, 2015 03:45 | December 24, 2015 08:45 | 5h | 405 | 2,025 |
| 9 | July 18, 2015 23:00 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 2h 45m | 375 | 750 |
| 10 | June 19, 2015 02:15 | June 19, 2015 18:30 | 16h 15m | 370 | 2,456 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 26 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/virginia/lancaster-county