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2018 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 17.8 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 318th 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 Buchanan 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 | July 3, 2018 00:30 | July 4, 2018 00:00 | 23h 30m | 1,717 | 29K |
| 2 | April 3, 2018 23:30 | April 4, 2018 04:30 | 5h | 1,420 | 5,679 |
| 3 | September 9, 2018 01:30 | September 12, 2018 12:00 | 3d 10h | 1,262 | 27K |
| 4 | August 8, 2018 02:45 | August 9, 2018 04:15 | 1d 1h | 1,221 | 4,650 |
| 5 | July 30, 2018 18:00 | July 31, 2018 00:30 | 6h 30m | 960 | 3,466 |
| 6 | December 28, 2018 04:00 | December 29, 2018 03:00 | 23h | 891 | 5,980 |
| 7 | December 9, 2018 17:00 | December 11, 2018 22:00 | 2d 5h | 855 | 13K |
| 8 | August 26, 2018 12:15 | August 27, 2018 00:15 | 12h | 812 | 6,302 |
| 9 | July 26, 2018 19:15 | July 27, 2018 00:45 | 5h 30m | 810 | 2,442 |
| 10 | November 9, 2018 23:00 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 12h 45m | 723 | 1,590 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 67 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county