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2017 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 432nd 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 Bland 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 5, 2017 12:00 | August 5, 2017 16:15 | 4h 15m | 1,416 | 6,018 |
| 2 | December 11, 2017 06:45 | December 11, 2017 07:15 | 30m | 1,059 | 266 |
| 3 | March 18, 2017 12:00 | March 18, 2017 16:45 | 4h 45m | 742 | 3,525 |
| 4 | January 12, 2017 17:15 | January 12, 2017 19:45 | 2h 30m | 738 | 1,845 |
| 5 | October 11, 2017 16:30 | October 11, 2017 19:45 | 3h 15m | 736 | 2,026 |
| 6 | June 20, 2017 14:00 | June 20, 2017 21:45 | 7h 45m | 732 | 3,336 |
| 7 | July 6, 2017 12:15 | July 6, 2017 17:00 | 4h 45m | 694 | 2,779 |
| 8 | September 27, 2017 19:15 | September 28, 2017 00:00 | 4h 45m | 649 | 1,513 |
| 9 | August 16, 2017 14:30 | August 16, 2017 19:15 | 4h 45m | 571 | 1,878 |
| 10 | April 23, 2017 14:15 | April 24, 2017 03:30 | 13h 15m | 384 | 1,749 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 25 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county