County annual report · FIPS 51029
2016 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 101st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 818th 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 Buckingham 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 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 23, 2016 17:30 | 6h 45m | 2,236 | 2,985 |
| 2 | May 6, 2016 11:15 | May 6, 2016 19:15 | 8h | 1,697 | 1,593 |
| 3 | December 1, 2016 01:15 | December 1, 2016 11:00 | 9h 45m | 1,156 | 470 |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 04:00 | April 3, 2016 21:15 | 17h 15m | 806 | 3,042 |
| 5 | September 18, 2016 17:45 | September 18, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 576 | 152 |
| 6 | May 27, 2016 18:30 | May 27, 2016 19:30 | 1h | 562 | 562 |
| 7 | October 11, 2016 18:15 | October 11, 2016 20:00 | 1h 45m | 542 | 947 |
| 8 | December 24, 2016 11:00 | December 24, 2016 13:45 | 2h 45m | 521 | 501 |
| 9 | April 9, 2016 14:45 | April 9, 2016 18:45 | 4h | 502 | 1,110 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 21:30 | February 25, 2016 03:30 | 6h | 453 | 1,521 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Buckingham 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 2.72 | 4.6 hrs | 2.61 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county