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2017 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 284K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 832nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2017
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 1, 2017 08:15 | March 2, 2017 22:15 | 1d 14h | 6,357 | 22K |
| 2 | October 29, 2017 21:00 | October 31, 2017 03:30 | 1d 6h | 6,182 | 28K |
| 3 | October 31, 2017 06:00 | October 31, 2017 22:45 | 16h 45m | 5,217 | 2,355 |
| 4 | February 9, 2017 12:15 | February 10, 2017 19:45 | 1d 7h | 3,805 | 4,934 |
| 5 | June 30, 2017 19:45 | July 1, 2017 10:45 | 15h | 3,061 | 4,149 |
| 6 | July 21, 2017 19:15 | July 22, 2017 06:15 | 11h | 2,878 | 3,546 |
| 7 | November 12, 2017 15:00 | November 13, 2017 01:15 | 10h 15m | 2,771 | 1,109 |
| 8 | May 8, 2017 12:15 | May 8, 2017 18:00 | 5h 45m | 2,542 | 767 |
| 9 | August 12, 2017 11:00 | August 12, 2017 14:45 | 3h 45m | 2,529 | 1,456 |
| 10 | September 29, 2017 13:30 | September 29, 2017 21:15 | 7h 45m | 2,478 | 697 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 112 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.94 | 2.0 hrs | 1.49 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 2.13 | 4.0 hrs | 2.13 |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/virginia/albemarle-county