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2016 Montgomery County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Montgomery County, VA went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 276K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 413th 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 Montgomery 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 | April 3, 2016 00:45 | April 4, 2016 23:15 | 1d 22h | 4,840 | 60K |
| 2 | June 3, 2016 10:00 | June 3, 2016 10:45 | 45m | 3,409 | 855 |
| 3 | December 15, 2016 21:45 | December 17, 2016 11:30 | 1d 13h | 3,343 | 60K |
| 4 | August 31, 2016 21:30 | September 1, 2016 13:45 | 16h 15m | 3,066 | 3,155 |
| 5 | January 29, 2016 10:30 | January 29, 2016 10:45 | 15m | 3,023 | 756 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 21:00 | July 10, 2016 10:45 | 1d 13h | 2,665 | 11K |
| 7 | June 29, 2016 15:45 | June 30, 2016 14:30 | 22h 45m | 2,631 | 4,616 |
| 8 | February 28, 2016 12:15 | February 28, 2016 16:15 | 4h | 1,612 | 1,125 |
| 9 | February 23, 2016 10:15 | February 24, 2016 05:45 | 19h 30m | 1,605 | 814 |
| 10 | March 28, 2016 19:15 | March 28, 2016 22:15 | 3h | 1,604 | 4,811 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 75 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Montgomery 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 |
| City of Radford - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Virginia Tech Electric Service | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,573 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county