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2017 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 27.3 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 196th 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 Giles 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 15, 2017 05:45 | June 16, 2017 20:30 | 1d 14h | 2,515 | 20K |
| 2 | June 5, 2017 15:30 | June 5, 2017 23:30 | 8h | 2,480 | 5,255 |
| 3 | August 22, 2017 21:15 | September 5, 2017 08:15 | 13d 11h | 1,242 | 8,760 |
| 4 | August 9, 2017 16:30 | August 9, 2017 17:45 | 1h 15m | 1,164 | 824 |
| 5 | July 5, 2017 08:15 | July 5, 2017 22:30 | 14h 15m | 1,059 | 3,751 |
| 6 | July 26, 2017 10:00 | July 26, 2017 19:15 | 9h 15m | 1,055 | 9,481 |
| 7 | May 15, 2017 06:00 | May 15, 2017 19:15 | 13h 15m | 1,054 | 8,601 |
| 8 | September 16, 2017 03:30 | September 16, 2017 05:30 | 2h | 1,013 | 2,026 |
| 9 | April 30, 2017 15:00 | April 30, 2017 20:15 | 5h 15m | 613 | 2,268 |
| 10 | March 1, 2017 16:45 | March 3, 2017 17:00 | 2d | 477 | 8,367 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 39 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 Giles 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2017 | 15.9 hrs | 5.04 | 10.9 hrs | 4.22 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county