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2018 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 21.0 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 266th 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 Alleghany 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 | June 15, 2018 13:00 | June 15, 2018 17:00 | 4h | 3,529 | 2,637 |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 02:30 | March 4, 2018 23:45 | 2d 21h | 1,311 | 28K |
| 3 | April 15, 2018 21:15 | April 16, 2018 13:45 | 16h 30m | 921 | 12K |
| 4 | July 4, 2018 22:00 | July 5, 2018 02:45 | 4h 45m | 900 | 701 |
| 5 | May 21, 2018 18:15 | May 22, 2018 03:00 | 8h 45m | 747 | 2,716 |
| 6 | May 17, 2018 13:45 | May 17, 2018 21:30 | 7h 45m | 731 | 524 |
| 7 | May 17, 2018 22:30 | May 18, 2018 03:00 | 4h 30m | 730 | 1,089 |
| 8 | March 21, 2018 04:00 | March 22, 2018 05:00 | 1d 1h | 693 | 6,849 |
| 9 | November 15, 2018 14:45 | November 18, 2018 00:45 | 2d 10h | 669 | 6,784 |
| 10 | June 26, 2018 17:45 | June 26, 2018 20:15 | 2h 30m | 562 | 885 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county