County annual report · FIPS 51640
2016 Galax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Galax city, VA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 6,675 customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 120th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1658th 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 Galax 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 | December 12, 2016 14:00 | December 12, 2016 18:30 | 4h 30m | 200 | 900 |
| 2 | October 22, 2016 13:00 | October 22, 2016 18:15 | 5h 15m | 171 | 715 |
| 3 | October 29, 2016 15:00 | October 29, 2016 19:15 | 4h 15m | 165 | 361 |
| 4 | March 2, 2016 18:15 | March 2, 2016 19:00 | 45m | 96 | 55 |
| 5 | December 5, 2016 22:30 | December 6, 2016 05:30 | 7h | 84 | 588 |
| 6 | July 26, 2016 11:00 | July 26, 2016 23:45 | 12h 45m | 72 | 572 |
| 7 | March 9, 2016 14:30 | March 9, 2016 16:45 | 2h 15m | 58 | 129 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 17:30 | February 25, 2016 03:30 | 10h | 57 | 283 |
| 9 | June 21, 2016 19:45 | June 21, 2016 21:15 | 1h 30m | 51 | 47 |
| 10 | February 6, 2016 13:45 | February 6, 2016 15:00 | 1h 15m | 50 | 63 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Galax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 5,393 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. Galax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Galax 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/galax-city