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2017 Rockbridge County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rockbridge County, VA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 118th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 2095th 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 Rockbridge 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 06:00 | October 9, 2017 17:15 | 11h 15m | 916 | 3,552 |
| 2 | February 8, 2017 14:45 | February 8, 2017 15:30 | 45m | 332 | 152 |
| 3 | April 25, 2017 19:00 | April 25, 2017 21:00 | 2h | 194 | 364 |
| 4 | March 15, 2017 20:15 | March 15, 2017 23:15 | 3h | 166 | 294 |
| 5 | March 1, 2017 17:30 | March 2, 2017 12:45 | 19h 15m | 151 | 753 |
| 6 | January 4, 2017 16:30 | January 4, 2017 18:30 | 2h | 137 | 154 |
| 7 | April 24, 2017 13:15 | April 24, 2017 16:15 | 3h | 136 | 408 |
| 8 | April 3, 2017 15:15 | April 3, 2017 17:15 | 2h | 128 | 156 |
| 9 | February 13, 2017 05:45 | February 13, 2017 16:00 | 10h 15m | 116 | 739 |
| 10 | October 29, 2017 06:00 | October 29, 2017 12:45 | 6h 45m | 106 | 329 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 10 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Rockbridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 6.7 hrs | 2.53 | 4.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 ÷ 11,617 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. Rockbridge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockbridge 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/rockbridge-county