County annual report · FIPS 51027
2016 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 396th 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 Buchanan 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 4, 2016 01:30 | July 4, 2016 14:45 | 13h 15m | 1,111 | 2,158 |
| 2 | July 4, 2016 21:30 | July 5, 2016 22:15 | 1d | 1,049 | 6,444 |
| 3 | January 19, 2016 08:45 | January 19, 2016 19:30 | 10h 45m | 928 | 5,525 |
| 4 | August 10, 2016 02:45 | August 10, 2016 06:15 | 3h 30m | 830 | 2,582 |
| 5 | August 10, 2016 07:15 | August 10, 2016 19:30 | 12h 15m | 830 | 1,025 |
| 6 | August 21, 2016 12:30 | August 22, 2016 01:45 | 13h 15m | 829 | 11K |
| 7 | April 11, 2016 16:15 | April 11, 2016 19:45 | 3h 30m | 753 | 1,926 |
| 8 | April 7, 2016 15:30 | April 8, 2016 14:45 | 23h 15m | 730 | 7,084 |
| 9 | August 12, 2016 22:30 | August 13, 2016 03:15 | 4h 45m | 673 | 2,194 |
| 10 | April 28, 2016 02:00 | April 28, 2016 21:00 | 19h | 657 | 1,165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 56 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county