County annual report · FIPS 51043
2016 Clarke County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Clarke County, VA went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 365th 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 Clarke 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 | September 1, 2016 12:00 | September 1, 2016 12:30 | 30m | 5,150 | 2,575 |
| 2 | February 7, 2016 21:15 | February 7, 2016 22:30 | 1h 15m | 2,728 | 3,202 |
| 3 | November 17, 2016 13:45 | November 17, 2016 14:30 | 45m | 2,452 | 1,838 |
| 4 | July 1, 2016 17:45 | July 1, 2016 20:30 | 2h 45m | 2,416 | 737 |
| 5 | November 20, 2016 16:45 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 20h | 2,051 | 11K |
| 6 | March 24, 2016 21:15 | March 25, 2016 00:45 | 3h 30m | 1,828 | 2,727 |
| 7 | December 29, 2016 17:00 | December 29, 2016 17:15 | 15m | 1,814 | 454 |
| 8 | August 24, 2016 15:15 | August 24, 2016 15:30 | 15m | 1,808 | 452 |
| 9 | September 7, 2016 15:45 | September 7, 2016 16:00 | 15m | 1,808 | 452 |
| 10 | June 16, 2016 22:15 | June 19, 2016 01:30 | 2d 3h | 1,291 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 54 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Clarke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.70 | 2.6 hrs | 1.54 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| 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 ÷ 7,589 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. Clarke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clarke 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/clarke-county