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2017 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1367th 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 Stafford 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 | March 1, 2017 14:00 | March 3, 2017 00:00 | 1d 10h | 11,033 | 51K |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 17:00 | April 8, 2017 05:15 | 1d 12h | 4,649 | 18K |
| 3 | March 14, 2017 10:45 | March 15, 2017 04:30 | 17h 45m | 4,482 | 6,947 |
| 4 | March 8, 2017 10:00 | March 8, 2017 13:00 | 3h | 4,409 | 8,302 |
| 5 | January 23, 2017 10:00 | January 24, 2017 02:00 | 16h | 3,927 | 12K |
| 6 | February 25, 2017 19:45 | February 26, 2017 18:15 | 22h 30m | 3,920 | 11K |
| 7 | April 23, 2017 04:00 | April 23, 2017 04:15 | 15m | 3,372 | 843 |
| 8 | July 14, 2017 15:15 | July 16, 2017 05:45 | 1d 14h | 3,086 | 8,306 |
| 9 | May 29, 2017 12:30 | May 29, 2017 20:30 | 8h | 2,807 | 2,684 |
| 10 | October 30, 2017 23:30 | October 31, 2017 00:15 | 45m | 2,486 | 651 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 59 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Stafford 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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county