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2016 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 620th 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 Amherst 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 | July 27, 2016 01:45 | July 28, 2016 16:30 | 1d 14h | 5,436 | 26K |
| 2 | May 24, 2016 12:45 | May 24, 2016 14:45 | 2h | 2,205 | 4,409 |
| 3 | September 19, 2016 14:00 | September 22, 2016 13:15 | 2d 23h | 1,473 | 820 |
| 4 | April 28, 2016 22:30 | April 29, 2016 02:15 | 3h 45m | 1,218 | 1,279 |
| 5 | March 17, 2016 12:30 | March 17, 2016 13:30 | 1h | 1,008 | 1,008 |
| 6 | November 29, 2016 07:15 | November 29, 2016 20:00 | 12h 45m | 873 | 1,903 |
| 7 | January 5, 2016 11:45 | January 5, 2016 15:15 | 3h 30m | 871 | 226 |
| 8 | April 22, 2016 21:00 | April 23, 2016 05:30 | 8h 30m | 865 | 3,672 |
| 9 | April 21, 2016 03:00 | April 21, 2016 05:30 | 2h 30m | 861 | 1,488 |
| 10 | March 21, 2016 04:15 | March 21, 2016 09:00 | 4h 45m | 776 | 1,555 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 53 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 Amherst 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 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county