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2017 Highland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Highland County, VA went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 714th 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 Highland 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 16:15 | March 1, 2017 18:45 | 2h 30m | 2,870 | 5,741 |
| 2 | June 15, 2017 20:30 | June 16, 2017 00:30 | 4h | 576 | 1,021 |
| 3 | January 5, 2017 16:30 | January 5, 2017 17:00 | 30m | 468 | 234 |
| 4 | June 23, 2017 08:15 | June 23, 2017 15:45 | 7h 30m | 372 | 970 |
| 5 | October 30, 2017 05:45 | October 30, 2017 08:45 | 3h | 330 | 534 |
| 6 | March 2, 2017 04:15 | March 2, 2017 06:30 | 2h 15m | 172 | 346 |
| 7 | February 5, 2017 03:30 | February 5, 2017 11:15 | 7h 45m | 150 | 514 |
| 8 | November 18, 2017 23:30 | November 19, 2017 04:15 | 4h 45m | 69 | 141 |
| 9 | August 9, 2017 14:30 | August 9, 2017 15:15 | 45m | 66 | 50 |
| 10 | June 9, 2017 16:00 | June 9, 2017 16:15 | 15m | 58 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Highland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 6.7 hrs | 2.53 | 4.0 hrs | 1.69 |
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 ÷ 1,392 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. Highland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highland 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/highland-county