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2018 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 82.3 hours, a total of 293K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 70th 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 Bland 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 24, 2018 21:45 | March 30, 2018 19:00 | 5d 21h | 3,828 | 232K |
| 2 | June 11, 2018 13:15 | June 12, 2018 00:45 | 11h 30m | 3,578 | 11K |
| 3 | July 18, 2018 15:15 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 8h | 2,826 | 5,764 |
| 4 | November 15, 2018 13:30 | November 19, 2018 07:00 | 3d 17h | 1,165 | 4,427 |
| 5 | October 21, 2018 04:30 | October 21, 2018 22:15 | 17h 45m | 1,065 | 1,512 |
| 6 | March 1, 2018 23:45 | March 3, 2018 18:45 | 1d 19h | 805 | 5,161 |
| 7 | December 24, 2018 01:00 | December 24, 2018 06:45 | 5h 45m | 787 | 4,329 |
| 8 | June 10, 2018 20:15 | June 11, 2018 02:00 | 5h 45m | 752 | 1,340 |
| 9 | August 7, 2018 19:00 | August 7, 2018 21:00 | 2h | 704 | 1,057 |
| 10 | January 11, 2018 23:30 | January 12, 2018 05:30 | 6h | 558 | 1,035 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county