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2015 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 267th 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 Russell 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 | July 13, 2015 22:00 | July 17, 2015 15:15 | 3d 17h | 2,906 | 45K |
| 2 | June 20, 2015 15:00 | June 20, 2015 22:00 | 7h | 2,234 | 2,027 |
| 3 | February 20, 2015 05:15 | February 20, 2015 22:45 | 17h 30m | 1,126 | 6,145 |
| 4 | August 18, 2015 19:45 | August 18, 2015 21:45 | 2h | 1,019 | 1,690 |
| 5 | April 3, 2015 15:15 | April 3, 2015 19:15 | 4h | 1,013 | 2,482 |
| 6 | April 26, 2015 05:00 | April 26, 2015 14:30 | 9h 30m | 871 | 3,497 |
| 7 | December 23, 2015 11:45 | December 23, 2015 14:30 | 2h 45m | 743 | 1,518 |
| 8 | December 25, 2015 01:45 | December 26, 2015 03:00 | 1d 1h | 743 | 3,825 |
| 9 | December 14, 2015 21:00 | December 14, 2015 22:15 | 1h 15m | 741 | 613 |
| 10 | June 27, 2015 00:30 | June 27, 2015 23:30 | 23h | 712 | 7,567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 77 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2015 | 11.7 hrs | 2.41 | 7.9 hrs | 2.21 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county