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2017 Fairfax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fairfax County, VA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 107th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1584th 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 Fairfax 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 | June 19, 2017 10:15 | June 21, 2017 08:45 | 1d 22h | 26,741 | 87K |
| 2 | February 13, 2017 00:00 | February 15, 2017 08:15 | 2d 8h | 22,153 | 153K |
| 3 | April 6, 2017 05:30 | April 8, 2017 09:30 | 2d 4h | 14,518 | 73K |
| 4 | November 19, 2017 09:30 | November 20, 2017 04:30 | 19h | 9,704 | 15K |
| 5 | July 14, 2017 12:15 | July 16, 2017 10:00 | 1d 21h | 8,910 | 37K |
| 6 | January 14, 2017 22:45 | January 15, 2017 19:30 | 20h 45m | 7,165 | 6,016 |
| 7 | June 26, 2017 10:15 | June 27, 2017 01:15 | 15h | 6,258 | 4,955 |
| 8 | July 5, 2017 22:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 1d | 6,071 | 25K |
| 9 | March 1, 2017 07:15 | March 3, 2017 01:30 | 1d 18h | 5,598 | 8,339 |
| 10 | February 25, 2017 12:00 | February 26, 2017 14:15 | 1d 2h | 5,591 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 203 reached 100+ customers, 77 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Fairfax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 513,143 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. Fairfax County has data for 2015–2017, 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fairfax 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/fairfax-county