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2017 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 685th 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 Botetourt 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 | May 17, 2017 11:30 | May 17, 2017 15:30 | 4h | 2,250 | 4,578 |
| 2 | August 11, 2017 19:45 | August 12, 2017 17:30 | 21h 45m | 1,911 | 3,595 |
| 3 | March 15, 2017 11:15 | March 15, 2017 15:30 | 4h 15m | 1,455 | 4,869 |
| 4 | May 1, 2017 18:15 | May 2, 2017 04:15 | 10h | 1,455 | 4,076 |
| 5 | May 20, 2017 20:45 | May 22, 2017 19:15 | 1d 22h | 1,261 | 8,188 |
| 6 | July 18, 2017 17:00 | July 19, 2017 00:45 | 7h 45m | 1,211 | 1,597 |
| 7 | April 28, 2017 23:15 | April 29, 2017 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,119 | 1,399 |
| 8 | June 14, 2017 21:15 | June 14, 2017 23:30 | 2h 15m | 748 | 1,121 |
| 9 | December 1, 2017 16:15 | December 2, 2017 01:00 | 8h 45m | 739 | 4,222 |
| 10 | September 13, 2017 11:30 | September 13, 2017 17:00 | 5h 30m | 638 | 2,606 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 41 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2017 | 15.9 hrs | 5.04 | 10.9 hrs | 4.22 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county