County annual report · FIPS 51163
2016 Rockbridge County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rockbridge County, VA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 118th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1404th 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 Rockbridge 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 | June 2, 2016 22:00 | June 3, 2016 09:15 | 11h 15m | 792 | 1,290 |
| 2 | March 30, 2016 14:15 | March 30, 2016 17:15 | 3h | 417 | 939 |
| 3 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 23, 2016 16:15 | 5h 30m | 366 | 488 |
| 4 | July 5, 2016 10:15 | July 5, 2016 11:45 | 1h 30m | 332 | 366 |
| 5 | August 26, 2016 09:00 | August 26, 2016 11:30 | 2h 30m | 332 | 662 |
| 6 | July 22, 2016 21:30 | July 23, 2016 10:00 | 12h 30m | 305 | 1,439 |
| 7 | July 27, 2016 20:30 | July 28, 2016 11:00 | 14h 30m | 236 | 2,566 |
| 8 | July 19, 2016 19:45 | July 20, 2016 15:45 | 20h | 225 | 1,653 |
| 9 | June 24, 2016 03:15 | June 25, 2016 06:15 | 1d 3h | 194 | 2,692 |
| 10 | December 6, 2016 18:15 | December 6, 2016 20:00 | 1h 45m | 194 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 15 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 Rockbridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 5.9 hrs | 2.82 | 3.8 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 ÷ 11,617 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. Rockbridge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockbridge 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/rockbridge-county