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2016 Fauquier County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fauquier County, VA went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 216K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 506th 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 Fauquier 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 21, 2016 13:00 | June 22, 2016 02:00 | 13h | 4,818 | 23K |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 01:45 | April 4, 2016 10:30 | 1d 8h | 4,638 | 28K |
| 3 | June 16, 2016 13:45 | June 19, 2016 17:45 | 3d 4h | 3,951 | 41K |
| 4 | February 16, 2016 05:00 | February 17, 2016 00:30 | 19h 30m | 3,256 | 11K |
| 5 | May 30, 2016 15:15 | May 30, 2016 22:15 | 7h | 2,986 | 8,659 |
| 6 | October 9, 2016 06:15 | October 10, 2016 11:15 | 1d 5h | 2,904 | 11K |
| 7 | December 12, 2016 14:30 | December 12, 2016 18:15 | 3h 45m | 2,815 | 3,140 |
| 8 | May 28, 2016 07:15 | May 28, 2016 14:00 | 6h 45m | 2,032 | 4,024 |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 15:15 | July 19, 2016 09:45 | 18h 30m | 1,909 | 8,060 |
| 10 | June 28, 2016 10:30 | June 29, 2016 23:15 | 1d 12h | 1,855 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 73 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 Fauquier 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 |
| 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 ÷ 31,801 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. Fauquier County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fauquier 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/fauquier-county