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2017 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 344th 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 Buckingham 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 21, 2017 02:30 | September 21, 2017 07:00 | 4h 30m | 3,239 | 11K |
| 2 | June 19, 2017 16:15 | June 20, 2017 05:15 | 13h | 3,231 | 3,705 |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 20:45 | March 8, 2017 06:15 | 9h 30m | 2,754 | 23K |
| 4 | October 15, 2017 08:15 | October 15, 2017 12:00 | 3h 45m | 2,027 | 3,689 |
| 5 | April 29, 2017 03:30 | April 29, 2017 06:00 | 2h 30m | 1,808 | 4,520 |
| 6 | December 8, 2017 23:00 | December 11, 2017 17:15 | 2d 18h | 1,740 | 9,702 |
| 7 | June 15, 2017 05:45 | June 15, 2017 16:15 | 10h 30m | 1,707 | 3,665 |
| 8 | May 31, 2017 20:45 | May 31, 2017 22:30 | 1h 45m | 994 | 629 |
| 9 | October 18, 2017 15:15 | October 18, 2017 15:45 | 30m | 914 | 238 |
| 10 | March 14, 2017 09:00 | March 14, 2017 20:00 | 11h | 797 | 1,784 |
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 Buckingham 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county