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2018 Dickenson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dickenson County, VA went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 143K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 337th 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 Dickenson 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 | January 13, 2018 01:30 | January 13, 2018 21:15 | 19h 45m | 2,005 | 8,007 |
| 2 | December 9, 2018 15:30 | December 13, 2018 04:30 | 3d 13h | 1,792 | 49K |
| 3 | May 15, 2018 18:45 | May 15, 2018 23:45 | 5h | 1,314 | 4,272 |
| 4 | May 21, 2018 21:00 | May 22, 2018 19:45 | 22h 45m | 1,112 | 2,487 |
| 5 | December 3, 2018 02:00 | December 3, 2018 06:15 | 4h 15m | 1,059 | 1,323 |
| 6 | April 23, 2018 23:15 | April 26, 2018 15:45 | 2d 16h | 925 | 3,859 |
| 7 | June 20, 2018 05:45 | June 20, 2018 08:45 | 3h | 687 | 2,061 |
| 8 | July 3, 2018 00:00 | July 5, 2018 20:15 | 2d 20h | 667 | 10K |
| 9 | September 23, 2018 08:30 | September 23, 2018 18:45 | 10h 15m | 612 | 1,348 |
| 10 | September 28, 2018 01:00 | September 28, 2018 17:30 | 16h 30m | 544 | 1,849 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 60 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Dickenson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
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 ÷ 8,563 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. Dickenson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickenson 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/dickenson-county