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2016 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 177K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 185th 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 Botetourt 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 20:15 | July 10, 2016 10:45 | 1d 14h | 3,877 | 83K |
| 2 | October 22, 2016 12:30 | October 22, 2016 17:45 | 5h 15m | 1,789 | 3,424 |
| 3 | April 1, 2016 12:30 | April 1, 2016 15:45 | 3h 15m | 1,684 | 4,212 |
| 4 | July 28, 2016 21:15 | July 29, 2016 21:00 | 23h 45m | 1,575 | 5,578 |
| 5 | February 16, 2016 04:30 | February 18, 2016 23:45 | 2d 19h | 1,518 | 33K |
| 6 | May 2, 2016 02:00 | May 2, 2016 03:45 | 1h 45m | 1,207 | 2,112 |
| 7 | May 8, 2016 16:30 | May 10, 2016 11:15 | 1d 18h | 961 | 2,187 |
| 8 | June 15, 2016 21:45 | June 16, 2016 09:30 | 11h 45m | 776 | 3,335 |
| 9 | April 3, 2016 00:45 | April 4, 2016 17:15 | 1d 16h | 594 | 6,699 |
| 10 | May 15, 2016 20:15 | May 16, 2016 00:30 | 4h 15m | 499 | 2,110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 38 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2016 | 12.2 hrs | 4.53 | 7.7 hrs | 3.71 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county