County annual report · FIPS 51137
2016 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 735th 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 Orange 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 | October 24, 2016 13:00 | October 24, 2016 14:00 | 1h | 5,695 | 2,849 |
| 2 | May 20, 2016 02:00 | May 20, 2016 03:15 | 1h 15m | 2,698 | 2,249 |
| 3 | April 7, 2016 20:00 | April 8, 2016 04:45 | 8h 45m | 1,907 | 2,846 |
| 4 | June 16, 2016 23:45 | June 19, 2016 02:30 | 2d 2h | 1,793 | 29K |
| 5 | July 13, 2016 01:30 | July 13, 2016 13:15 | 11h 45m | 1,161 | 377 |
| 6 | June 7, 2016 21:15 | June 7, 2016 22:30 | 1h 15m | 1,044 | 1,305 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 14:00 | July 28, 2016 14:30 | 30m | 958 | 479 |
| 8 | July 31, 2016 00:30 | July 31, 2016 02:30 | 2h | 950 | 322 |
| 9 | July 26, 2016 23:30 | July 27, 2016 05:45 | 6h 15m | 874 | 2,766 |
| 10 | September 7, 2016 20:00 | September 8, 2016 06:45 | 10h 45m | 826 | 561 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 58 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Orange 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 2.72 | 4.6 hrs | 2.61 |
| 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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county