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2016 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 14.2 hours, a total of 462K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 229th 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 Franklin 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 | February 16, 2016 06:45 | February 19, 2016 01:00 | 2d 18h | 12,169 | 208K |
| 2 | May 17, 2016 20:30 | May 18, 2016 00:15 | 3h 45m | 5,953 | 6,900 |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 18:00 | July 18, 2016 14:30 | 3d 20h | 2,801 | 5,593 |
| 4 | October 20, 2016 00:45 | October 20, 2016 02:00 | 1h 15m | 2,698 | 2,701 |
| 5 | January 12, 2016 15:45 | January 14, 2016 02:45 | 1d 11h | 2,591 | 6,941 |
| 6 | June 17, 2016 00:45 | June 18, 2016 11:00 | 1d 10h | 2,527 | 14K |
| 7 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 5, 2016 19:30 | 2d 23h | 2,518 | 8,986 |
| 8 | October 20, 2016 02:45 | October 20, 2016 09:30 | 6h 45m | 2,416 | 7,375 |
| 9 | January 16, 2016 04:30 | January 16, 2016 16:00 | 11h 30m | 2,288 | 9,871 |
| 10 | August 6, 2016 01:15 | August 6, 2016 22:15 | 21h | 2,229 | 1,271 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 77 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county