County annual report · FIPS 51530
2016 Buena Vista city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buena Vista city, VA went without power for an average of 8219.8 hours, a total of 8,220 customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 2nd 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 Buena Vista city, 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 | August 26, 2016 09:00 | August 26, 2016 11:45 | 2h 45m | 1,420 | 2,819 |
| 2 | July 5, 2016 10:15 | July 5, 2016 12:15 | 2h | 1,408 | 1,757 |
| 3 | January 29, 2016 14:45 | January 29, 2016 15:30 | 45m | 340 | 117 |
| 4 | May 3, 2016 00:45 | May 3, 2016 08:15 | 7h 30m | 147 | 1,103 |
| 5 | June 1, 2016 02:45 | June 1, 2016 06:30 | 3h 45m | 147 | 551 |
| 6 | September 15, 2016 20:15 | September 15, 2016 22:30 | 2h 15m | 146 | 329 |
| 7 | December 8, 2016 17:30 | December 8, 2016 18:45 | 1h 15m | 55 | 69 |
| 8 | June 24, 2016 03:15 | June 24, 2016 17:30 | 14h 15m | 51 | 680 |
| 9 | December 6, 2016 18:15 | December 6, 2016 19:30 | 1h 15m | 44 | 55 |
| 10 | January 27, 2016 14:15 | January 27, 2016 17:30 | 3h 15m | 29 | 91 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 6 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 Buena Vista city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 1 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. Buena Vista city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/buena-vista-city