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2018 Buena Vista city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Buena Vista city, VA went without power for an average of 7219.0 hours, a total of 7,219 customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 3rd 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 Buena Vista city, 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 | January 19, 2018 18:00 | January 19, 2018 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1,930 | 1,885 |
| 2 | September 17, 2018 04:15 | September 17, 2018 07:30 | 3h 15m | 345 | 633 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 05:30 | March 3, 2018 12:15 | 1d 6h | 195 | 2,381 |
| 4 | June 15, 2018 16:30 | June 15, 2018 18:15 | 1h 45m | 142 | 249 |
| 5 | April 16, 2018 04:45 | April 16, 2018 14:45 | 10h | 141 | 1,039 |
| 6 | October 11, 2018 17:45 | October 11, 2018 20:45 | 3h | 55 | 102 |
| 7 | December 14, 2018 18:30 | December 14, 2018 22:15 | 3h 45m | 45 | 83 |
| 8 | September 9, 2018 09:00 | September 9, 2018 11:45 | 2h 45m | 41 | 113 |
| 9 | January 11, 2018 14:30 | January 11, 2018 15:30 | 1h | 28 | 28 |
| 10 | April 25, 2018 02:45 | April 25, 2018 03:45 | 1h | 18 | 18 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Buena Vista city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 1 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. Buena Vista city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista city, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/buena-vista-city