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2016 Highland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Highland County, VA went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 355th 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 Highland 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 12, 2016 20:30 | February 12, 2016 21:30 | 1h | 2,878 | 2,159 |
| 2 | February 6, 2016 13:15 | February 6, 2016 15:15 | 2h | 2,874 | 5,748 |
| 3 | July 25, 2016 22:00 | July 26, 2016 00:00 | 2h | 698 | 875 |
| 4 | September 20, 2016 13:00 | September 20, 2016 15:30 | 2h 30m | 468 | 790 |
| 5 | March 28, 2016 13:45 | March 28, 2016 17:00 | 3h 15m | 406 | 851 |
| 6 | October 4, 2016 21:00 | October 4, 2016 23:00 | 2h | 340 | 259 |
| 7 | November 20, 2016 15:30 | November 20, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 338 | 91 |
| 8 | March 18, 2016 17:45 | March 19, 2016 02:00 | 8h 15m | 314 | 1,941 |
| 9 | June 23, 2016 19:30 | June 23, 2016 21:45 | 2h 15m | 76 | 153 |
| 10 | November 22, 2016 16:15 | November 22, 2016 18:45 | 2h 30m | 54 | 135 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Highland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 5.9 hrs | 2.82 | 3.8 hrs | 1.69 |
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 ÷ 1,392 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. Highland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highland 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/highland-county