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2017 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 605th 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 Buchanan 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 19, 2017 16:45 | May 20, 2017 04:30 | 11h 45m | 1,850 | 22K |
| 2 | June 4, 2017 12:30 | June 4, 2017 20:45 | 8h 15m | 1,848 | 14K |
| 3 | March 1, 2017 16:00 | March 4, 2017 21:45 | 3d 5h | 1,240 | 14K |
| 4 | May 9, 2017 20:00 | May 10, 2017 19:00 | 23h | 699 | 1,339 |
| 5 | April 24, 2017 03:45 | April 24, 2017 07:30 | 3h 45m | 556 | 2,076 |
| 6 | April 24, 2017 09:00 | April 24, 2017 14:15 | 5h 15m | 538 | 1,928 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 14:15 | May 3, 2017 00:45 | 1d 10h | 520 | 5,989 |
| 8 | January 24, 2017 09:30 | January 25, 2017 03:15 | 17h 45m | 506 | 3,158 |
| 9 | January 23, 2017 16:15 | January 23, 2017 16:45 | 30m | 477 | 239 |
| 10 | March 14, 2017 04:00 | March 14, 2017 11:00 | 7h | 474 | 2,388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county