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2018 Charlottesville city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Charlottesville city, VA went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 212K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 532nd 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 Charlottesville 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 | November 15, 2018 16:45 | November 17, 2018 07:30 | 1d 14h | 7,346 | 32K |
| 2 | January 4, 2018 23:45 | January 5, 2018 03:00 | 3h 15m | 7,026 | 6,712 |
| 3 | June 24, 2018 19:15 | June 25, 2018 17:45 | 22h 30m | 5,146 | 13K |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 05:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 19h | 3,280 | 76K |
| 5 | October 3, 2018 13:30 | October 3, 2018 17:15 | 3h 45m | 3,193 | 2,228 |
| 6 | January 3, 2018 17:00 | January 3, 2018 19:45 | 2h 45m | 2,897 | 1,523 |
| 7 | May 10, 2018 18:30 | May 11, 2018 22:30 | 1d 4h | 2,615 | 9,610 |
| 8 | February 11, 2018 06:00 | February 11, 2018 20:15 | 14h 15m | 2,429 | 7,759 |
| 9 | December 22, 2018 05:45 | December 23, 2018 09:15 | 1d 3h | 2,421 | 4,249 |
| 10 | September 16, 2018 08:45 | September 16, 2018 10:45 | 2h | 2,344 | 1,272 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 44 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Charlottesville 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 ÷ 20,605 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. Charlottesville city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlottesville 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/charlottesville-city