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2017 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1318th 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 Bedford 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 | September 6, 2017 18:30 | September 6, 2017 22:45 | 4h 15m | 3,814 | 972 |
| 2 | May 5, 2017 07:45 | May 6, 2017 22:45 | 1d 15h | 2,513 | 11K |
| 3 | July 6, 2017 01:00 | July 6, 2017 18:15 | 17h 15m | 1,739 | 3,756 |
| 4 | September 28, 2017 12:15 | September 29, 2017 09:30 | 21h 15m | 1,698 | 5,331 |
| 5 | August 18, 2017 20:30 | August 19, 2017 00:00 | 3h 30m | 1,674 | 1,358 |
| 6 | April 24, 2017 13:15 | April 24, 2017 19:00 | 5h 45m | 1,564 | 7,464 |
| 7 | August 7, 2017 02:00 | August 7, 2017 12:00 | 10h | 1,500 | 3,922 |
| 8 | October 29, 2017 11:15 | October 30, 2017 23:30 | 1d 12h | 1,468 | 8,749 |
| 9 | April 25, 2017 18:30 | April 26, 2017 02:30 | 8h | 1,406 | 3,983 |
| 10 | February 9, 2017 09:45 | February 10, 2017 16:45 | 1d 7h | 1,328 | 3,239 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 100 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.94 | 2.5 hrs | 1.69 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2017 | 1.5 hrs | 0.53 | 1.5 hrs | 0.53 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county