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2017 Caroline County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Caroline County, VA went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 852nd 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 Caroline 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 31, 2017 09:15 | May 31, 2017 10:30 | 1h 15m | 5,080 | 3,810 |
| 2 | March 14, 2017 06:30 | March 15, 2017 00:00 | 17h 30m | 3,461 | 20K |
| 3 | August 18, 2017 23:30 | August 19, 2017 21:30 | 22h | 3,406 | 12K |
| 4 | March 17, 2017 14:45 | March 17, 2017 18:45 | 4h | 2,076 | 2,707 |
| 5 | March 22, 2017 16:45 | March 22, 2017 17:45 | 1h | 1,960 | 1,945 |
| 6 | June 13, 2017 22:00 | June 13, 2017 22:45 | 45m | 1,958 | 1,469 |
| 7 | January 26, 2017 17:30 | January 27, 2017 00:00 | 6h 30m | 1,804 | 1,051 |
| 8 | January 5, 2017 17:45 | January 5, 2017 18:30 | 45m | 1,678 | 1,259 |
| 9 | May 25, 2017 19:30 | May 25, 2017 22:00 | 2h 30m | 1,636 | 2,557 |
| 10 | May 11, 2017 20:00 | May 12, 2017 00:00 | 4h | 1,032 | 1,042 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 61 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Caroline 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.94 | 2.0 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 ÷ 14,714 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. Caroline County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caroline 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/caroline-county