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2017 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 10.4 hours, a total of 192K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 522nd 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 Orange 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 17:00 | April 7, 2017 22:00 | 1d 5h | 17,235 | 126K |
| 2 | March 1, 2017 16:00 | March 2, 2017 16:15 | 1d | 4,259 | 16K |
| 3 | February 25, 2017 19:15 | February 26, 2017 07:00 | 11h 45m | 2,157 | 5,442 |
| 4 | April 20, 2017 23:00 | April 21, 2017 00:00 | 1h | 1,858 | 1,677 |
| 5 | April 5, 2017 05:15 | April 5, 2017 06:45 | 1h 30m | 1,716 | 2,558 |
| 6 | August 21, 2017 22:15 | August 22, 2017 09:45 | 11h 30m | 1,710 | 3,525 |
| 7 | July 22, 2017 17:15 | July 23, 2017 17:00 | 23h 45m | 1,693 | 8,050 |
| 8 | February 28, 2017 23:00 | February 28, 2017 23:45 | 45m | 1,336 | 1,002 |
| 9 | August 19, 2017 05:30 | August 19, 2017 06:45 | 1h 15m | 1,238 | 1,548 |
| 10 | May 13, 2017 01:30 | May 13, 2017 03:00 | 1h 30m | 1,205 | 351 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 42 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Orange 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 2.13 | 4.0 hrs | 2.13 |
| 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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county