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2016 Hanover County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hanover County, VA went without power for an average of 17.0 hours, a total of 844K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 178th 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 Hanover 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 17, 2016 01:00 | June 20, 2016 21:15 | 3d 20h | 27,009 | 661K |
| 2 | July 26, 2016 10:45 | July 28, 2016 03:45 | 1d 17h | 5,056 | 29K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 15:00 | 2d 16h | 4,032 | 25K |
| 4 | July 6, 2016 16:45 | July 7, 2016 11:30 | 18h 45m | 3,510 | 2,039 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 20:15 | February 26, 2016 03:45 | 1d 7h | 3,368 | 19K |
| 6 | April 1, 2016 06:15 | April 1, 2016 09:30 | 3h 15m | 3,334 | 5,153 |
| 7 | October 19, 2016 13:30 | October 19, 2016 20:30 | 7h | 2,541 | 683 |
| 8 | September 18, 2016 16:15 | September 18, 2016 17:15 | 1h | 2,536 | 644 |
| 9 | June 23, 2016 11:30 | June 24, 2016 11:00 | 23h 30m | 2,519 | 2,856 |
| 10 | February 15, 2016 18:00 | February 16, 2016 06:00 | 12h | 2,509 | 1,095 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 71 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Hanover 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 |
| 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 ÷ 49,633 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. Hanover County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hanover 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/hanover-county