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2017 Madison County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Madison County, VA went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 728th 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 Madison 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 | August 24, 2017 12:15 | August 24, 2017 12:30 | 15m | 2,468 | 617 |
| 2 | August 22, 2017 15:00 | August 22, 2017 15:30 | 30m | 2,464 | 1,232 |
| 3 | October 29, 2017 22:30 | October 30, 2017 21:45 | 23h 15m | 2,020 | 19K |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 18:30 | March 2, 2017 07:45 | 13h 15m | 1,468 | 5,902 |
| 5 | May 19, 2017 20:15 | May 20, 2017 08:00 | 11h 45m | 1,454 | 5,804 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 08:00 | July 19, 2017 13:00 | 5h | 1,060 | 2,370 |
| 7 | August 19, 2017 20:45 | August 19, 2017 21:30 | 45m | 1,002 | 602 |
| 8 | February 9, 2017 20:00 | February 10, 2017 00:45 | 4h 45m | 622 | 821 |
| 9 | October 8, 2017 03:30 | October 8, 2017 04:00 | 30m | 584 | 292 |
| 10 | September 30, 2017 10:45 | September 30, 2017 18:00 | 7h 15m | 492 | 1,391 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 35 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Madison 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.94 | 2.0 hrs | 1.49 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,952 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. Madison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county