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2017 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 554th 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 Russell 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 | July 24, 2017 00:00 | July 25, 2017 20:00 | 1d 20h | 3,937 | 16K |
| 2 | February 9, 2017 00:30 | February 10, 2017 04:45 | 1d 4h | 2,412 | 2,780 |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 12:00 | May 3, 2017 00:30 | 1d 12h | 2,374 | 15K |
| 4 | September 1, 2017 23:15 | September 2, 2017 16:45 | 17h 30m | 2,180 | 11K |
| 5 | December 19, 2017 07:15 | December 19, 2017 21:45 | 14h 30m | 2,180 | 3,975 |
| 6 | February 23, 2017 14:15 | February 23, 2017 20:30 | 6h 15m | 2,165 | 3,825 |
| 7 | October 19, 2017 12:45 | October 19, 2017 20:15 | 7h 30m | 1,485 | 879 |
| 8 | September 11, 2017 23:30 | September 12, 2017 18:00 | 18h 30m | 1,398 | 5,174 |
| 9 | May 13, 2017 10:15 | May 13, 2017 21:00 | 10h 45m | 1,019 | 3,633 |
| 10 | June 24, 2017 03:45 | June 24, 2017 21:45 | 18h | 993 | 1,252 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 61 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 | 80 min | 0.83 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county