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2018 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 37.7 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 155th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2018
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 2, 2018 03:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 21h | 20,213 | 963K |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 14:00 | November 19, 2018 06:45 | 3d 16h | 13,986 | 158K |
| 3 | May 14, 2018 13:30 | May 17, 2018 07:15 | 2d 17h | 9,984 | 79K |
| 4 | June 10, 2018 09:15 | June 14, 2018 18:30 | 4d 9h | 7,971 | 57K |
| 5 | July 5, 2018 10:30 | July 6, 2018 19:45 | 1d 9h | 4,566 | 6,022 |
| 6 | July 31, 2018 19:00 | August 2, 2018 10:15 | 1d 15h | 4,232 | 16K |
| 7 | January 4, 2018 23:30 | January 5, 2018 03:00 | 3h 30m | 4,185 | 6,710 |
| 8 | July 28, 2018 05:00 | July 29, 2018 08:45 | 1d 3h | 3,828 | 12K |
| 9 | June 18, 2018 12:45 | June 20, 2018 08:45 | 1d 20h | 3,825 | 17K |
| 10 | October 29, 2018 10:15 | October 29, 2018 15:45 | 5h 30m | 3,808 | 1,138 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 131 reached 100+ customers, 36 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2018 | 21.3 hrs | 2.99 | 2.8 hrs | 1.58 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2018 | 13.3 hrs | 3.94 | 2.9 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/albemarle-county