County annual report · FIPS 51600
2016 Fairfax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fairfax city, VA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 113th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1228th 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 Fairfax 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 18, 2016 01:00 | August 18, 2016 10:00 | 9h | 2,268 | 6,870 |
| 2 | December 17, 2016 14:45 | December 17, 2016 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,305 | 1,958 |
| 3 | October 22, 2016 16:45 | October 22, 2016 23:00 | 6h 15m | 498 | 874 |
| 4 | May 7, 2016 04:00 | May 7, 2016 14:00 | 10h | 464 | 2,364 |
| 5 | June 29, 2016 09:30 | June 29, 2016 11:30 | 2h | 454 | 455 |
| 6 | June 16, 2016 22:30 | June 17, 2016 11:15 | 12h 45m | 422 | 2,031 |
| 7 | September 29, 2016 02:00 | September 29, 2016 03:30 | 1h 30m | 420 | 557 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 23:00 | February 25, 2016 09:00 | 10h | 391 | 2,148 |
| 9 | April 3, 2016 03:00 | April 4, 2016 00:00 | 21h | 380 | 1,801 |
| 10 | September 29, 2016 07:15 | September 29, 2016 12:15 | 5h | 329 | 1,545 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 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 Fairfax 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 ÷ 12,701 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. Fairfax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fairfax 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/fairfax-city