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2017 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1091st 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 Amherst 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 | August 22, 2017 12:00 | August 22, 2017 23:30 | 11h 30m | 2,395 | 12K |
| 2 | September 17, 2017 03:15 | September 17, 2017 04:00 | 45m | 1,680 | 1,260 |
| 3 | October 29, 2017 22:15 | October 30, 2017 22:15 | 1d | 960 | 9,473 |
| 4 | May 5, 2017 05:15 | May 5, 2017 20:45 | 15h 30m | 932 | 4,126 |
| 5 | November 15, 2017 04:45 | November 15, 2017 05:15 | 30m | 844 | 213 |
| 6 | November 19, 2017 14:15 | November 19, 2017 19:45 | 5h 30m | 844 | 2,005 |
| 7 | April 20, 2017 12:45 | April 21, 2017 05:30 | 16h 45m | 779 | 1,382 |
| 8 | July 23, 2017 03:30 | July 23, 2017 19:15 | 15h 45m | 749 | 2,425 |
| 9 | November 21, 2017 12:00 | November 22, 2017 00:45 | 12h 45m | 670 | 624 |
| 10 | May 25, 2017 05:15 | May 25, 2017 12:30 | 7h 15m | 512 | 834 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 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 Amherst 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 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county