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2016 Nelson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nelson County, VA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 511th 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 Nelson 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 16, 2016 04:30 | February 17, 2016 17:00 | 1d 12h | 939 | 6,810 |
| 2 | August 6, 2016 21:30 | August 7, 2016 23:45 | 1d 2h | 862 | 1,470 |
| 3 | August 21, 2016 20:15 | August 22, 2016 01:45 | 5h 30m | 860 | 2,369 |
| 4 | September 25, 2016 02:30 | September 25, 2016 11:15 | 8h 45m | 705 | 5,991 |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 08:00 | June 5, 2016 16:30 | 8h 30m | 425 | 1,630 |
| 6 | June 18, 2016 21:45 | June 18, 2016 23:45 | 2h | 377 | 378 |
| 7 | August 17, 2016 22:00 | August 18, 2016 03:00 | 5h | 376 | 1,880 |
| 8 | October 16, 2016 02:30 | October 16, 2016 08:45 | 6h 15m | 333 | 2,081 |
| 9 | June 17, 2016 01:00 | June 18, 2016 01:30 | 1d | 276 | 2,574 |
| 10 | July 16, 2016 03:30 | July 16, 2016 14:15 | 10h 45m | 231 | 2,309 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Nelson 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 2.72 | 4.6 hrs | 2.61 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 |
| 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 ÷ 5,606 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county