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2018 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 24.9 hours, a total of 264K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 228th 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 Botetourt 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 00:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 4d | 5,264 | 102K |
| 2 | October 11, 2018 17:30 | October 15, 2018 01:15 | 3d 7h | 1,879 | 16K |
| 3 | January 24, 2018 11:00 | January 24, 2018 19:00 | 8h | 1,703 | 5,837 |
| 4 | August 16, 2018 18:45 | August 16, 2018 22:00 | 3h 15m | 1,444 | 1,143 |
| 5 | June 22, 2018 18:45 | June 23, 2018 16:30 | 21h 45m | 1,440 | 9,285 |
| 6 | May 21, 2018 23:15 | May 24, 2018 15:15 | 2d 16h | 1,433 | 7,909 |
| 7 | September 28, 2018 00:30 | September 28, 2018 19:45 | 19h 15m | 1,271 | 7,592 |
| 8 | July 28, 2018 02:30 | July 28, 2018 04:45 | 2h 15m | 1,214 | 2,732 |
| 9 | April 11, 2018 15:45 | April 11, 2018 18:45 | 3h | 1,205 | 1,809 |
| 10 | June 1, 2018 01:30 | June 2, 2018 19:15 | 1d 17h | 1,075 | 8,640 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 71 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county