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2017 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1257th 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 Lynchburg city, 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 | May 1, 2017 19:00 | May 3, 2017 01:45 | 1d 6h | 5,963 | 42K |
| 2 | October 19, 2017 18:30 | October 19, 2017 21:15 | 2h 45m | 5,071 | 2,547 |
| 3 | March 10, 2017 13:15 | March 10, 2017 21:00 | 7h 45m | 3,842 | 13K |
| 4 | May 16, 2017 11:45 | May 17, 2017 02:15 | 14h 30m | 2,485 | 7,891 |
| 5 | May 5, 2017 04:15 | May 5, 2017 18:45 | 14h 30m | 2,426 | 6,013 |
| 6 | October 8, 2017 13:00 | October 8, 2017 15:45 | 2h 45m | 1,837 | 4,987 |
| 7 | July 11, 2017 00:45 | July 11, 2017 17:00 | 16h 15m | 1,784 | 8,068 |
| 8 | October 30, 2017 00:30 | October 30, 2017 21:15 | 20h 45m | 1,714 | 7,539 |
| 9 | June 25, 2017 07:45 | June 25, 2017 10:00 | 2h 15m | 1,561 | 1,614 |
| 10 | November 1, 2017 01:45 | November 1, 2017 03:30 | 1h 45m | 1,500 | 760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 85 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Lynchburg city 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 |
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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, 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/lynchburg-city