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2016 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 215K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 102nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 860th 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 Lynchburg 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 | June 23, 2016 20:00 | June 28, 2016 15:45 | 4d 19h | 5,790 | 93K |
| 2 | October 13, 2016 21:30 | October 13, 2016 22:30 | 1h | 2,404 | 1,015 |
| 3 | May 1, 2016 14:45 | May 1, 2016 23:15 | 8h 30m | 1,910 | 2,904 |
| 4 | April 9, 2016 17:30 | April 10, 2016 15:45 | 22h 15m | 1,790 | 5,404 |
| 5 | April 3, 2016 03:15 | April 4, 2016 00:15 | 21h | 1,784 | 9,989 |
| 6 | July 31, 2016 23:30 | August 1, 2016 16:45 | 17h 15m | 1,728 | 456 |
| 7 | July 27, 2016 01:00 | July 28, 2016 18:00 | 1d 17h | 1,649 | 15K |
| 8 | August 8, 2016 09:00 | August 8, 2016 19:15 | 10h 15m | 1,582 | 2,270 |
| 9 | July 28, 2016 18:45 | July 29, 2016 22:15 | 1d 3h | 1,374 | 8,893 |
| 10 | July 11, 2016 22:00 | July 12, 2016 01:45 | 3h 45m | 1,272 | 961 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 63 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lynchburg 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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg 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/lynchburg-city