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2016 Madison County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Madison County, VA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 766th 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 Madison 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 | November 26, 2016 18:30 | November 26, 2016 21:00 | 2h 30m | 2,490 | 2,772 |
| 2 | August 14, 2016 20:00 | August 14, 2016 22:45 | 2h 45m | 1,056 | 1,118 |
| 3 | June 17, 2016 00:30 | June 17, 2016 12:00 | 11h 30m | 684 | 1,317 |
| 4 | November 11, 2016 12:45 | November 11, 2016 13:45 | 1h | 684 | 465 |
| 5 | September 30, 2016 08:15 | September 30, 2016 12:45 | 4h 30m | 668 | 1,248 |
| 6 | May 2, 2016 17:15 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 1h 15m | 566 | 375 |
| 7 | June 16, 2016 20:45 | June 16, 2016 22:30 | 1h 45m | 566 | 491 |
| 8 | September 30, 2016 13:30 | September 30, 2016 13:45 | 15m | 496 | 124 |
| 9 | June 15, 2016 12:45 | June 15, 2016 14:45 | 2h | 482 | 153 |
| 10 | January 22, 2016 23:45 | January 23, 2016 02:45 | 3h | 478 | 648 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 38 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 Madison 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 ÷ 6,952 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. Madison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county