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2017 Shenandoah County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Shenandoah County, VA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1023rd 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 Shenandoah 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 26, 2017 04:45 | October 26, 2017 12:30 | 7h 45m | 3,490 | 5,392 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 19:00 | December 8, 2017 19:15 | 15m | 2,215 | 554 |
| 3 | December 1, 2017 14:15 | December 1, 2017 17:45 | 3h 30m | 2,214 | 559 |
| 4 | November 19, 2017 09:15 | November 19, 2017 23:45 | 14h 30m | 2,118 | 7,729 |
| 5 | March 31, 2017 11:15 | March 31, 2017 22:15 | 11h | 2,003 | 7,621 |
| 6 | May 14, 2017 15:30 | May 15, 2017 04:30 | 13h | 1,831 | 3,523 |
| 7 | February 9, 2017 20:30 | February 10, 2017 00:15 | 3h 45m | 1,785 | 2,274 |
| 8 | June 6, 2017 15:15 | June 6, 2017 22:00 | 6h 45m | 998 | 1,505 |
| 9 | May 6, 2017 15:15 | May 6, 2017 19:00 | 3h 45m | 752 | 1,513 |
| 10 | July 8, 2017 00:00 | July 8, 2017 02:00 | 2h | 730 | 1,251 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 64 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 Shenandoah 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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 |
| 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 ÷ 18,066 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. Shenandoah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shenandoah 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/shenandoah-county