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2017 Montgomery County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Montgomery County, VA went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 945th 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 Montgomery 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 | October 9, 2017 03:15 | October 12, 2017 00:45 | 2d 21h | 6,308 | 4,560 |
| 2 | September 3, 2017 00:45 | September 3, 2017 06:00 | 5h 15m | 2,164 | 4,755 |
| 3 | March 1, 2017 11:30 | March 3, 2017 19:30 | 2d 8h | 1,547 | 25K |
| 4 | September 2, 2017 01:15 | September 2, 2017 04:30 | 3h 15m | 1,536 | 4,992 |
| 5 | July 10, 2017 18:00 | July 17, 2017 21:15 | 7d 3h | 1,517 | 3,205 |
| 6 | March 8, 2017 16:45 | March 9, 2017 11:00 | 18h 15m | 1,508 | 3,769 |
| 7 | December 14, 2017 01:30 | December 14, 2017 04:00 | 2h 30m | 1,463 | 418 |
| 8 | October 16, 2017 08:15 | October 16, 2017 21:15 | 13h | 1,457 | 8,101 |
| 9 | December 18, 2017 16:45 | December 18, 2017 18:00 | 1h 15m | 1,405 | 1,756 |
| 10 | October 16, 2017 04:45 | October 16, 2017 05:15 | 30m | 1,349 | 341 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 74 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Montgomery 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 |
| City of Radford - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Virginia Tech Electric Service | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,573 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county