County annual report · FIPS 51019
2016 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 362K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 466th 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 Bedford 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 8, 2016 16:45 | July 10, 2016 21:15 | 2d 4h | 9,957 | 79K |
| 2 | June 23, 2016 12:30 | June 26, 2016 00:15 | 2d 11h | 3,921 | 20K |
| 3 | May 22, 2016 11:45 | May 24, 2016 16:15 | 2d 4h | 2,953 | 864 |
| 4 | February 1, 2016 12:00 | February 2, 2016 01:30 | 13h 30m | 2,950 | 5,238 |
| 5 | February 15, 2016 23:00 | February 19, 2016 00:45 | 3d 1h | 2,817 | 35K |
| 6 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 10, 2016 20:45 | 1d 22h | 2,626 | 22K |
| 7 | July 12, 2016 19:30 | July 14, 2016 16:15 | 1d 20h | 2,144 | 5,066 |
| 8 | June 21, 2016 17:30 | June 21, 2016 19:30 | 2h | 2,088 | 1,568 |
| 9 | June 17, 2016 00:45 | June 20, 2016 15:00 | 3d 14h | 2,070 | 21K |
| 10 | July 27, 2016 01:30 | July 31, 2016 23:00 | 4d 21h | 1,802 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 103 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.9 hrs | 2.02 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 0.94 | 2.2 hrs | 0.94 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county