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2016 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 158K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 336th 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 Russell 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 23, 2016 23:15 | June 30, 2016 14:00 | 6d 14h | 3,250 | 26K |
| 2 | August 26, 2016 18:15 | August 29, 2016 21:00 | 3d 2h | 2,399 | 12K |
| 3 | June 22, 2016 12:45 | June 22, 2016 23:30 | 10h 45m | 2,273 | 4,385 |
| 4 | June 2, 2016 16:30 | June 2, 2016 17:45 | 1h 15m | 2,218 | 2,771 |
| 5 | December 17, 2016 16:00 | December 17, 2016 23:00 | 7h | 2,202 | 9,066 |
| 6 | June 17, 2016 02:00 | June 18, 2016 01:45 | 23h 45m | 2,016 | 25K |
| 7 | July 4, 2016 23:30 | July 5, 2016 20:30 | 21h | 1,328 | 5,126 |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 02:45 | April 4, 2016 19:00 | 1d 16h | 1,184 | 5,026 |
| 9 | April 7, 2016 21:00 | April 8, 2016 01:30 | 4h 30m | 1,167 | 1,350 |
| 10 | March 2, 2016 02:15 | March 2, 2016 14:30 | 12h 15m | 1,163 | 3,870 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 59 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 | 2.0 hrs | 1.13 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county