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2016 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 18.7 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 159th 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 Giles 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 | September 21, 2016 14:30 | September 26, 2016 11:45 | 4d 21h | 3,082 | 15K |
| 2 | September 8, 2016 16:45 | September 8, 2016 19:00 | 2h 15m | 2,485 | 3,730 |
| 3 | May 10, 2016 20:45 | May 10, 2016 22:15 | 1h 30m | 2,484 | 1,868 |
| 4 | November 30, 2016 13:15 | November 30, 2016 18:45 | 5h 30m | 2,146 | 9,887 |
| 5 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 3, 2016 20:00 | 1d | 2,042 | 1,660 |
| 6 | November 10, 2016 13:15 | November 10, 2016 18:45 | 5h 30m | 2,030 | 11K |
| 7 | August 15, 2016 21:30 | August 16, 2016 03:30 | 6h | 1,539 | 3,223 |
| 8 | June 7, 2016 16:30 | June 8, 2016 00:00 | 7h 30m | 1,158 | 1,146 |
| 9 | November 29, 2016 03:30 | November 29, 2016 20:30 | 17h | 1,114 | 4,582 |
| 10 | August 10, 2016 03:00 | August 10, 2016 07:00 | 4h | 1,020 | 4,080 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 48 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Giles 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2016 | 12.2 hrs | 4.53 | 7.7 hrs | 3.71 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county