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2016 Spotsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Spotsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 214K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 104th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 895th 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 Spotsylvania 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 | December 7, 2016 14:15 | December 7, 2016 18:15 | 4h | 8,870 | 4,457 |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 14:15 | July 26, 2016 01:30 | 11h 15m | 8,020 | 8,447 |
| 3 | July 27, 2016 00:00 | July 28, 2016 02:00 | 1d 2h | 5,386 | 30K |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 03:30 | April 3, 2016 23:00 | 19h 30m | 5,380 | 29K |
| 5 | June 16, 2016 21:45 | June 17, 2016 21:30 | 23h 45m | 5,110 | 18K |
| 6 | May 17, 2016 23:00 | May 18, 2016 13:30 | 14h 30m | 4,764 | 9,100 |
| 7 | May 18, 2016 14:30 | May 18, 2016 19:00 | 4h 30m | 4,098 | 4,803 |
| 8 | May 3, 2016 18:00 | May 4, 2016 07:00 | 13h | 4,071 | 7,527 |
| 9 | July 28, 2016 16:00 | July 29, 2016 19:30 | 1d 3h | 4,039 | 9,564 |
| 10 | July 19, 2016 19:45 | July 19, 2016 21:45 | 2h | 2,990 | 2,251 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 98 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Spotsylvania 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 |
| 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 ÷ 62,155 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. Spotsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spotsylvania 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/spotsylvania-county