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2017 Dickenson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dickenson County, VA went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 465th 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 Dickenson 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 | March 1, 2017 12:15 | March 3, 2017 01:00 | 1d 12h | 956 | 17K |
| 2 | June 13, 2017 17:00 | June 14, 2017 18:30 | 1d 1h | 578 | 2,597 |
| 3 | June 1, 2017 03:30 | June 1, 2017 06:45 | 3h 15m | 572 | 1,859 |
| 4 | June 23, 2017 11:30 | June 25, 2017 01:30 | 1d 14h | 553 | 8,256 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 13:45 | May 3, 2017 22:00 | 2d 8h | 547 | 6,639 |
| 6 | May 11, 2017 12:45 | May 12, 2017 23:15 | 1d 10h | 441 | 2,751 |
| 7 | May 4, 2017 12:30 | May 4, 2017 19:30 | 7h | 401 | 800 |
| 8 | June 15, 2017 10:45 | June 16, 2017 03:45 | 17h | 399 | 2,654 |
| 9 | December 1, 2017 09:45 | December 1, 2017 22:30 | 12h 45m | 395 | 2,405 |
| 10 | December 19, 2017 12:15 | December 19, 2017 19:15 | 7h | 369 | 1,445 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 41 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Dickenson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 | 80 min | 0.83 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
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 ÷ 8,563 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. Dickenson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickenson 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/dickenson-county