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2018 Fauquier County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fauquier County, VA went without power for an average of 29.3 hours, a total of 932K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 191st 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 Fauquier 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 | March 2, 2018 05:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 19h | 17,071 | 670K |
| 2 | August 4, 2018 16:15 | August 5, 2018 05:15 | 13h | 11,368 | 33K |
| 3 | May 14, 2018 22:00 | May 17, 2018 03:15 | 2d 5h | 6,861 | 59K |
| 4 | January 5, 2018 07:45 | January 5, 2018 09:45 | 2h | 5,536 | 7,478 |
| 5 | March 15, 2018 12:30 | March 15, 2018 17:45 | 5h 15m | 5,385 | 6,781 |
| 6 | August 5, 2018 12:15 | August 5, 2018 17:45 | 5h 30m | 3,590 | 4,601 |
| 7 | February 25, 2018 00:15 | February 25, 2018 12:00 | 11h 45m | 3,428 | 3,192 |
| 8 | May 24, 2018 08:00 | May 24, 2018 09:30 | 1h 30m | 3,280 | 2,317 |
| 9 | November 15, 2018 19:30 | November 17, 2018 22:15 | 2d 2h | 2,898 | 31K |
| 10 | April 26, 2018 01:45 | April 26, 2018 02:30 | 45m | 2,841 | 1,421 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 76 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Fauquier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2018 | 21.3 hrs | 2.99 | 2.8 hrs | 1.58 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| 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 ÷ 31,801 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. Fauquier County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fauquier 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/fauquier-county