County annual report · FIPS 51191
2016 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 215K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 523rd 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 Washington 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 22, 2016 17:15 | December 22, 2016 20:30 | 3h 15m | 5,273 | 5,062 |
| 2 | August 14, 2016 21:30 | August 16, 2016 01:45 | 1d 4h | 2,356 | 12K |
| 3 | November 19, 2016 20:00 | November 20, 2016 01:30 | 5h 30m | 1,819 | 4,408 |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 02:15 | June 20, 2016 18:00 | 3d 15h | 1,725 | 23K |
| 5 | May 7, 2016 09:15 | May 7, 2016 14:45 | 5h 30m | 1,700 | 860 |
| 6 | June 28, 2016 15:00 | June 28, 2016 15:45 | 45m | 1,568 | 393 |
| 7 | July 5, 2016 01:15 | July 6, 2016 23:15 | 1d 22h | 1,537 | 20K |
| 8 | November 29, 2016 00:30 | November 29, 2016 23:45 | 23h 15m | 1,470 | 5,463 |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 11:45 | February 26, 2016 03:15 | 1d 15h | 1,406 | 9,013 |
| 10 | July 27, 2016 22:30 | July 29, 2016 15:30 | 1d 17h | 1,388 | 6,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 78 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Washington 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 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2016 | 23 min | 0.01 | 15 min | 0.01 |
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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county