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2017 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 970th 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 Washington 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 | June 28, 2017 00:45 | June 28, 2017 04:15 | 3h 30m | 3,641 | 9,350 |
| 2 | August 15, 2017 04:45 | August 16, 2017 16:45 | 1d 12h | 2,281 | 5,481 |
| 3 | May 23, 2017 17:15 | May 26, 2017 00:15 | 2d 7h | 2,007 | 14K |
| 4 | July 17, 2017 22:15 | July 18, 2017 12:15 | 14h | 1,700 | 11K |
| 5 | August 17, 2017 20:45 | August 18, 2017 18:15 | 21h 30m | 1,367 | 5,556 |
| 6 | March 18, 2017 11:30 | March 18, 2017 15:45 | 4h 15m | 1,246 | 1,875 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 12:00 | June 20, 2017 22:30 | 4d 10h | 1,120 | 5,729 |
| 8 | June 6, 2017 10:45 | June 7, 2017 12:45 | 1d 2h | 1,106 | 3,146 |
| 9 | September 18, 2017 02:15 | September 18, 2017 04:45 | 2h 30m | 1,102 | 1,489 |
| 10 | May 12, 2017 16:45 | May 13, 2017 21:00 | 1d 4h | 916 | 4,886 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 71 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2017 | 29 min | 0.01 | 12 min | 0.00 |
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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county