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2015 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 127 Virginia counties and 1009th 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 Orange 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 | December 17, 2015 19:15 | December 17, 2015 20:15 | 1h | 2,678 | 2,398 |
| 2 | September 29, 2015 22:00 | September 30, 2015 04:30 | 6h 30m | 2,386 | 4,231 |
| 3 | July 1, 2015 04:15 | July 1, 2015 07:45 | 3h 30m | 1,113 | 3,604 |
| 4 | June 20, 2015 22:30 | June 22, 2015 23:45 | 2d 1h | 1,076 | 14K |
| 5 | November 23, 2015 17:45 | November 23, 2015 18:45 | 1h | 922 | 859 |
| 6 | February 14, 2015 23:00 | February 15, 2015 10:30 | 11h 30m | 850 | 2,706 |
| 7 | May 29, 2015 18:30 | May 29, 2015 19:15 | 45m | 658 | 165 |
| 8 | May 20, 2015 02:45 | May 20, 2015 03:15 | 30m | 648 | 162 |
| 9 | January 18, 2015 05:45 | January 18, 2015 07:15 | 1h 30m | 600 | 900 |
| 10 | February 2, 2015 04:00 | February 2, 2015 06:30 | 2h 30m | 559 | 883 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 43 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.3 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.24 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2015 | 8.6 hrs | 3.21 | 5.5 hrs | 2.82 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county