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2016 Rockingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rockingham County, VA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 664th 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 Rockingham 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 16, 2016 23:15 | June 18, 2016 00:45 | 1d 1h | 5,495 | 27K |
| 2 | August 17, 2016 23:00 | August 18, 2016 16:30 | 17h 30m | 3,133 | 8,493 |
| 3 | July 3, 2016 17:15 | July 3, 2016 19:00 | 1h 45m | 3,024 | 3,824 |
| 4 | November 24, 2016 13:30 | November 24, 2016 16:30 | 3h | 2,986 | 6,712 |
| 5 | February 12, 2016 06:30 | February 12, 2016 12:45 | 6h 15m | 2,930 | 5,073 |
| 6 | May 22, 2016 16:30 | May 23, 2016 03:45 | 11h 15m | 2,660 | 4,446 |
| 7 | October 24, 2016 13:15 | October 24, 2016 18:00 | 4h 45m | 2,468 | 3,616 |
| 8 | January 6, 2016 05:00 | January 6, 2016 17:00 | 12h | 2,382 | 6,673 |
| 9 | August 29, 2016 21:15 | August 30, 2016 04:15 | 7h | 2,330 | 6,380 |
| 10 | January 25, 2016 20:15 | January 26, 2016 00:45 | 4h 30m | 2,234 | 3,814 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 96 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Rockingham 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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 | 2.9 hrs | 2.01 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Harrisonburg - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Elkton | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 34,838 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. Rockingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockingham 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/rockingham-county