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2017 Spotsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Spotsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 210K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1231st 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 Spotsylvania 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 23:00 | 1d 6h | 11,942 | 60K |
| 2 | July 14, 2017 17:00 | July 16, 2017 12:30 | 1d 19h | 5,614 | 13K |
| 3 | July 22, 2017 22:30 | July 23, 2017 19:15 | 20h 45m | 3,840 | 6,445 |
| 4 | October 16, 2017 21:30 | October 17, 2017 07:15 | 9h 45m | 3,656 | 8,360 |
| 5 | February 9, 2017 17:00 | February 10, 2017 14:15 | 21h 15m | 3,295 | 2,574 |
| 6 | March 14, 2017 06:30 | March 15, 2017 00:00 | 17h 30m | 3,282 | 15K |
| 7 | February 23, 2017 14:30 | February 23, 2017 18:45 | 4h 15m | 3,204 | 847 |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 15:45 | March 3, 2017 00:00 | 1d 8h | 3,027 | 18K |
| 9 | October 11, 2017 10:30 | October 11, 2017 23:45 | 13h 15m | 3,019 | 2,259 |
| 10 | April 5, 2017 05:15 | April 5, 2017 06:45 | 1h 30m | 2,904 | 3,731 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 89 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Spotsylvania 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 |
| 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 ÷ 62,155 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. Spotsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spotsylvania 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/spotsylvania-county