County annual report · FIPS 51021
2016 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 348th 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 Bland 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 | November 28, 2016 20:00 | November 28, 2016 22:45 | 2h 45m | 2,833 | 5,313 |
| 2 | August 23, 2016 12:30 | August 23, 2016 12:45 | 15m | 2,096 | 524 |
| 3 | June 24, 2016 01:00 | June 24, 2016 16:30 | 15h 30m | 774 | 2,152 |
| 4 | December 24, 2016 05:00 | December 24, 2016 09:30 | 4h 30m | 768 | 3,456 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 18:00 | February 25, 2016 19:45 | 1d 1h | 744 | 5,822 |
| 6 | March 24, 2016 18:00 | March 24, 2016 22:30 | 4h 30m | 743 | 2,301 |
| 7 | April 24, 2016 15:00 | April 24, 2016 16:30 | 1h 30m | 560 | 421 |
| 8 | September 26, 2016 21:15 | September 27, 2016 00:00 | 2h 45m | 560 | 1,540 |
| 9 | October 20, 2016 19:45 | October 20, 2016 20:30 | 45m | 390 | 152 |
| 10 | April 5, 2016 17:00 | April 5, 2016 17:45 | 45m | 310 | 233 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county