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2017 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 173K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 925th 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 Franklin 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 | February 18, 2017 16:30 | February 19, 2017 01:00 | 8h 30m | 1,984 | 13K |
| 2 | September 1, 2017 17:00 | September 2, 2017 16:15 | 23h 15m | 1,946 | 3,716 |
| 3 | May 19, 2017 04:00 | May 19, 2017 15:15 | 11h 15m | 1,885 | 10K |
| 4 | February 9, 2017 08:00 | February 10, 2017 23:15 | 1d 15h | 1,749 | 13K |
| 5 | July 26, 2017 01:30 | July 26, 2017 18:00 | 16h 30m | 1,703 | 7,868 |
| 6 | May 14, 2017 21:00 | May 15, 2017 02:00 | 5h | 1,571 | 2,863 |
| 7 | June 3, 2017 14:45 | June 3, 2017 23:30 | 8h 45m | 1,464 | 3,633 |
| 8 | December 26, 2017 11:45 | December 26, 2017 16:30 | 4h 45m | 1,177 | 2,133 |
| 9 | April 1, 2017 15:30 | April 1, 2017 18:15 | 2h 45m | 957 | 1,441 |
| 10 | October 7, 2017 11:30 | October 7, 2017 15:45 | 4h 15m | 932 | 2,990 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 65 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county