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2017 Fauquier County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fauquier County, VA went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 251K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 674th 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 Fauquier 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 | April 6, 2017 17:15 | April 9, 2017 00:45 | 2d 7h | 13,464 | 105K |
| 2 | October 9, 2017 08:00 | October 9, 2017 19:15 | 11h 15m | 4,860 | 11K |
| 3 | August 11, 2017 22:00 | August 14, 2017 02:00 | 2d 4h | 4,418 | 23K |
| 4 | December 25, 2017 11:45 | December 25, 2017 21:15 | 9h 30m | 3,667 | 3,274 |
| 5 | January 23, 2017 13:15 | January 24, 2017 02:00 | 12h 45m | 3,580 | 4,179 |
| 6 | June 19, 2017 19:00 | June 21, 2017 00:00 | 1d 5h | 2,856 | 5,659 |
| 7 | September 6, 2017 15:45 | September 7, 2017 01:30 | 9h 45m | 2,678 | 1,548 |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 18:00 | March 2, 2017 16:45 | 22h 45m | 2,650 | 13K |
| 9 | May 30, 2017 20:45 | June 1, 2017 02:45 | 1d 6h | 2,377 | 8,792 |
| 10 | May 28, 2017 11:45 | May 28, 2017 12:15 | 30m | 2,295 | 576 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 70 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Fauquier 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 |
| 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 ÷ 31,801 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. Fauquier County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fauquier 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/fauquier-county