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2016 Accomack County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Accomack County, VA went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 497th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Accomack County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 23, 2016 05:00 | January 24, 2016 17:30 | 1d 12h | 11,020 | 50K |
| 2 | September 2, 2016 13:30 | September 2, 2016 15:45 | 2h 15m | 10,596 | 5,301 |
| 3 | September 3, 2016 09:45 | September 4, 2016 01:15 | 15h 30m | 6,934 | 8,366 |
| 4 | March 20, 2016 19:00 | March 20, 2016 22:00 | 3h | 5,912 | 5,680 |
| 5 | January 21, 2016 15:15 | January 21, 2016 15:45 | 30m | 5,530 | 2,765 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 20:15 | February 25, 2016 02:00 | 5h 45m | 4,492 | 10K |
| 7 | July 2, 2016 10:30 | July 3, 2016 15:15 | 1d 4h | 4,148 | 12K |
| 8 | October 9, 2016 09:45 | October 10, 2016 01:00 | 15h 15m | 3,800 | 5,011 |
| 9 | September 4, 2016 10:45 | September 4, 2016 14:15 | 3h 30m | 3,574 | 4,629 |
| 10 | January 17, 2016 18:45 | January 18, 2016 02:00 | 7h 15m | 2,516 | 3,160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 66 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Accomack County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| A & N Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,528 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. Accomack County has data for 2015–2016, 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Accomack County, VA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/virginia/accomack-county