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2017 Clarke County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clarke County, VA went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 730th 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 Clarke 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 | January 27, 2017 15:45 | January 27, 2017 16:00 | 15m | 2,730 | 683 |
| 2 | August 12, 2017 04:45 | August 12, 2017 06:45 | 2h | 2,494 | 3,885 |
| 3 | July 29, 2017 14:30 | July 30, 2017 02:00 | 11h 30m | 1,558 | 4,978 |
| 4 | October 30, 2017 02:00 | October 30, 2017 18:45 | 16h 45m | 1,498 | 4,618 |
| 5 | November 15, 2017 14:15 | November 15, 2017 15:15 | 1h | 1,370 | 1,117 |
| 6 | May 5, 2017 10:15 | May 5, 2017 18:00 | 7h 45m | 842 | 2,471 |
| 7 | May 19, 2017 00:15 | May 19, 2017 04:15 | 4h | 792 | 403 |
| 8 | March 10, 2017 13:00 | March 10, 2017 17:15 | 4h 15m | 740 | 2,412 |
| 9 | March 1, 2017 18:15 | March 3, 2017 02:00 | 1d 7h | 538 | 5,581 |
| 10 | July 11, 2017 21:45 | July 12, 2017 09:15 | 11h 30m | 518 | 3,079 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 48 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Clarke 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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| 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 ÷ 7,589 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. Clarke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clarke 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/clarke-county