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2017 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 609th 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 Lancaster 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 16:30 | April 7, 2017 21:45 | 1d 5h | 2,088 | 14K |
| 2 | November 11, 2017 12:45 | November 11, 2017 21:15 | 8h 30m | 1,708 | 5,975 |
| 3 | November 27, 2017 22:45 | November 28, 2017 01:15 | 2h 30m | 1,586 | 3,096 |
| 4 | February 25, 2017 22:15 | February 25, 2017 23:45 | 1h 30m | 1,220 | 1,830 |
| 5 | May 2, 2017 15:15 | May 2, 2017 17:00 | 1h 45m | 1,217 | 308 |
| 6 | August 4, 2017 13:30 | August 4, 2017 15:45 | 2h 15m | 852 | 498 |
| 7 | February 13, 2017 14:30 | February 13, 2017 20:45 | 6h 15m | 559 | 2,688 |
| 8 | January 9, 2017 09:00 | January 9, 2017 16:15 | 7h 15m | 443 | 976 |
| 9 | July 29, 2017 06:45 | July 30, 2017 04:00 | 21h 15m | 438 | 2,071 |
| 10 | August 22, 2017 11:15 | August 22, 2017 17:00 | 5h 45m | 407 | 2,340 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 24 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/virginia/lancaster-county