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2017 Buena Vista city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buena Vista city, VA went without power for an average of 4688.8 hours, a total of 4,689 customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 2nd 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 Buena Vista city, 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 | February 8, 2017 14:00 | February 8, 2017 15:30 | 1h 30m | 1,400 | 736 |
| 2 | July 14, 2017 11:30 | July 14, 2017 13:45 | 2h 15m | 962 | 1,465 |
| 3 | March 24, 2017 19:30 | March 24, 2017 22:00 | 2h 30m | 388 | 970 |
| 4 | May 5, 2017 16:00 | May 5, 2017 20:30 | 4h 30m | 146 | 235 |
| 5 | March 1, 2017 18:45 | March 1, 2017 22:30 | 3h 45m | 89 | 154 |
| 6 | June 17, 2017 14:15 | June 17, 2017 16:30 | 2h 15m | 65 | 146 |
| 7 | April 25, 2017 19:00 | April 25, 2017 21:00 | 2h | 55 | 89 |
| 8 | July 29, 2017 06:00 | July 29, 2017 08:45 | 2h 45m | 43 | 106 |
| 9 | November 19, 2017 10:00 | November 19, 2017 13:00 | 3h | 43 | 71 |
| 10 | December 14, 2017 13:30 | December 14, 2017 17:00 | 3h 30m | 40 | 134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Buena Vista city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 1 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. Buena Vista city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/virginia/buena-vista-city