County annual report · FIPS 51013
2016 Arlington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Arlington County, VA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 218K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 116th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1352nd 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 Arlington 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 19, 2016 17:15 | October 20, 2016 10:00 | 16h 45m | 6,739 | 23K |
| 2 | November 20, 2016 18:15 | November 21, 2016 06:30 | 12h 15m | 5,677 | 13K |
| 3 | March 7, 2016 13:45 | March 7, 2016 20:00 | 6h 15m | 4,951 | 1,336 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 23:15 | February 25, 2016 19:00 | 19h 45m | 4,503 | 4,629 |
| 5 | October 29, 2016 09:15 | October 29, 2016 13:45 | 4h 30m | 4,080 | 2,530 |
| 6 | January 13, 2016 00:30 | January 14, 2016 03:30 | 1d 3h | 4,068 | 8,616 |
| 7 | June 21, 2016 11:30 | June 22, 2016 02:00 | 14h 30m | 3,625 | 7,704 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 00:30 | July 8, 2016 03:45 | 1d 3h | 2,411 | 7,501 |
| 9 | January 4, 2016 20:00 | January 5, 2016 00:15 | 4h 15m | 2,269 | 1,594 |
| 10 | May 5, 2016 22:00 | May 6, 2016 04:00 | 6h | 2,188 | 4,584 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 140 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Arlington 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 111,055 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. Arlington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Arlington 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/arlington-county