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2016 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 320K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 491st 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 Albemarle 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 | February 16, 2016 03:00 | February 17, 2016 20:15 | 1d 17h | 6,817 | 48K |
| 2 | June 16, 2016 23:00 | June 19, 2016 04:15 | 2d 5h | 5,576 | 73K |
| 3 | January 15, 2016 15:30 | January 15, 2016 17:45 | 2h 15m | 3,412 | 2,612 |
| 4 | April 12, 2016 10:45 | April 12, 2016 17:15 | 6h 30m | 3,410 | 3,014 |
| 5 | August 14, 2016 19:45 | August 16, 2016 23:30 | 2d 3h | 3,008 | 3,684 |
| 6 | August 6, 2016 20:30 | August 8, 2016 18:15 | 1d 21h | 2,982 | 14K |
| 7 | April 3, 2016 02:45 | April 5, 2016 04:15 | 2d 1h | 2,536 | 20K |
| 8 | January 12, 2016 22:00 | January 13, 2016 19:00 | 21h | 2,332 | 3,853 |
| 9 | November 27, 2016 00:00 | November 27, 2016 09:00 | 9h | 2,255 | 2,504 |
| 10 | April 9, 2016 17:15 | April 10, 2016 10:30 | 17h 15m | 1,482 | 4,348 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 101 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Albemarle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.70 | 2.6 hrs | 1.54 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 2.72 | 4.6 hrs | 2.61 |
| 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/albemarle-county