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2016 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 105th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 909th 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 Stafford 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 | March 31, 2016 13:45 | March 31, 2016 15:45 | 2h | 6,953 | 4,232 |
| 2 | September 29, 2016 02:00 | September 30, 2016 05:00 | 1d 3h | 5,503 | 13K |
| 3 | February 16, 2016 08:15 | February 17, 2016 01:00 | 16h 45m | 5,263 | 18K |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 00:30 | June 18, 2016 00:45 | 1d | 4,789 | 32K |
| 5 | September 6, 2016 15:15 | September 7, 2016 00:30 | 9h 15m | 4,049 | 2,517 |
| 6 | July 18, 2016 18:45 | July 19, 2016 10:45 | 16h | 4,037 | 7,563 |
| 7 | August 14, 2016 22:45 | August 16, 2016 23:45 | 2d 1h | 3,890 | 20K |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 03:00 | April 3, 2016 22:30 | 19h 30m | 3,625 | 20K |
| 9 | May 1, 2016 10:00 | May 1, 2016 22:00 | 12h | 2,781 | 3,999 |
| 10 | June 28, 2016 22:00 | June 29, 2016 16:45 | 18h 45m | 2,541 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 74 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Stafford 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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county