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2016 Dickenson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dickenson County, VA went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 324th 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 Dickenson 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 | November 28, 2016 20:30 | November 30, 2016 18:45 | 1d 22h | 1,114 | 5,672 |
| 2 | June 17, 2016 02:15 | June 19, 2016 02:30 | 2d | 987 | 27K |
| 3 | June 24, 2016 00:15 | June 25, 2016 16:45 | 1d 16h | 708 | 3,104 |
| 4 | July 4, 2016 20:15 | July 5, 2016 21:15 | 1d 1h | 639 | 3,051 |
| 5 | December 6, 2016 20:15 | December 6, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 636 | 810 |
| 6 | April 11, 2016 16:15 | April 11, 2016 20:15 | 4h | 559 | 1,296 |
| 7 | February 25, 2016 08:45 | February 25, 2016 20:45 | 12h | 533 | 1,843 |
| 8 | December 24, 2016 10:00 | December 24, 2016 22:15 | 12h 15m | 513 | 1,814 |
| 9 | August 15, 2016 20:45 | August 17, 2016 16:15 | 1d 19h | 448 | 5,043 |
| 10 | July 3, 2016 14:00 | July 3, 2016 19:45 | 5h 45m | 411 | 1,155 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 48 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Dickenson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 | 2.0 hrs | 1.13 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
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 ÷ 8,563 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. Dickenson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickenson 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/dickenson-county