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2016 Smyth County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Smyth County, VA went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 211K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 307th 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 Smyth 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 | May 24, 2016 11:15 | May 24, 2016 17:00 | 5h 45m | 7,761 | 7,768 |
| 2 | June 17, 2016 01:15 | June 20, 2016 20:30 | 3d 19h | 5,139 | 47K |
| 3 | June 24, 2016 01:15 | July 7, 2016 11:30 | 13d 10h | 4,504 | 27K |
| 4 | December 5, 2016 03:00 | December 5, 2016 19:45 | 16h 45m | 3,939 | 10K |
| 5 | September 5, 2016 00:00 | September 5, 2016 18:30 | 18h 30m | 1,865 | 32K |
| 6 | July 29, 2016 02:00 | July 29, 2016 11:15 | 9h 15m | 1,620 | 6,432 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 04:30 | February 16, 2016 17:30 | 13h | 1,616 | 2,184 |
| 8 | November 5, 2016 02:45 | November 5, 2016 08:15 | 5h 30m | 1,323 | 3,440 |
| 9 | December 29, 2016 16:30 | December 30, 2016 02:45 | 10h 15m | 1,134 | 6,881 |
| 10 | January 23, 2016 15:45 | January 23, 2016 17:00 | 1h 15m | 1,123 | 739 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 58 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Smyth 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 |
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 ÷ 18,737 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. Smyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smyth 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/smyth-county