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2018 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 59.0 hours, a total of 318K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 105th 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 Buckingham 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 | October 11, 2018 19:45 | October 16, 2018 21:45 | 5d 2h | 6,978 | 217K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 03:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 21h | 4,039 | 36K |
| 3 | May 10, 2018 18:00 | May 11, 2018 09:00 | 15h | 3,684 | 5,703 |
| 4 | September 8, 2018 03:30 | September 8, 2018 10:45 | 7h 15m | 1,790 | 11K |
| 5 | August 30, 2018 20:45 | August 31, 2018 13:00 | 16h 15m | 1,379 | 2,891 |
| 6 | January 7, 2018 11:15 | January 7, 2018 16:30 | 5h 15m | 1,189 | 1,379 |
| 7 | April 25, 2018 17:45 | April 25, 2018 19:15 | 1h 30m | 1,182 | 392 |
| 8 | December 4, 2018 14:30 | December 4, 2018 15:30 | 1h | 933 | 545 |
| 9 | June 19, 2018 22:30 | June 20, 2018 06:45 | 8h 15m | 808 | 2,279 |
| 10 | March 8, 2018 01:30 | March 8, 2018 02:45 | 1h 15m | 713 | 410 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 37 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Buckingham 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 40.6 hrs | 4.32 | 5.1 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county