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2017 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 727th 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 Alleghany 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 | October 9, 2017 04:00 | October 9, 2017 08:15 | 4h 15m | 1,562 | 3,903 |
| 2 | May 14, 2017 17:00 | May 14, 2017 21:30 | 4h 30m | 1,368 | 1,442 |
| 3 | May 5, 2017 21:45 | May 5, 2017 23:30 | 1h 45m | 886 | 341 |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 17:00 | March 2, 2017 08:15 | 15h 15m | 805 | 6,324 |
| 5 | November 19, 2017 07:15 | November 19, 2017 22:30 | 15h 15m | 720 | 4,104 |
| 6 | July 5, 2017 11:45 | July 5, 2017 13:30 | 1h 45m | 666 | 336 |
| 7 | October 19, 2017 14:00 | October 19, 2017 14:15 | 15m | 581 | 145 |
| 8 | October 18, 2017 14:15 | October 18, 2017 14:30 | 15m | 497 | 124 |
| 9 | December 25, 2017 07:30 | December 25, 2017 17:45 | 10h 15m | 484 | 3,125 |
| 10 | June 13, 2017 23:15 | June 13, 2017 23:45 | 30m | 473 | 119 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 16 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2017 | 15.9 hrs | 5.04 | 10.9 hrs | 4.22 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 6.7 hrs | 2.53 | 4.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county