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2016 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 17.5 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 172nd 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 Alleghany 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 | October 14, 2016 13:45 | October 14, 2016 18:45 | 5h | 2,713 | 3,646 |
| 2 | June 23, 2016 12:30 | June 25, 2016 20:45 | 2d 8h | 1,666 | 22K |
| 3 | May 2, 2016 01:45 | May 2, 2016 07:15 | 5h 30m | 1,363 | 1,699 |
| 4 | December 29, 2016 18:45 | December 30, 2016 00:45 | 6h | 1,025 | 3,506 |
| 5 | May 13, 2016 00:15 | May 13, 2016 09:30 | 9h 15m | 974 | 4,977 |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 06:00 | February 17, 2016 19:15 | 1d 13h | 857 | 9,372 |
| 7 | June 27, 2016 22:15 | June 29, 2016 02:45 | 1d 4h | 742 | 6,865 |
| 8 | March 7, 2016 18:45 | March 7, 2016 21:00 | 2h 15m | 732 | 186 |
| 9 | July 13, 2016 19:00 | July 13, 2016 21:15 | 2h 15m | 627 | 315 |
| 10 | February 20, 2016 08:45 | February 20, 2016 15:00 | 6h 15m | 485 | 1,506 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 21 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2016 | 12.2 hrs | 4.53 | 7.7 hrs | 3.71 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 5.9 hrs | 2.82 | 3.8 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county