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2018 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 28.4 hours, a total of 923K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 195th 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 Franklin 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 00:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 4d | 14,585 | 397K |
| 2 | March 25, 2018 01:15 | March 29, 2018 01:45 | 4d | 6,683 | 179K |
| 3 | February 24, 2018 19:00 | February 24, 2018 23:45 | 4h 45m | 4,593 | 20K |
| 4 | June 10, 2018 04:15 | June 12, 2018 03:00 | 1d 22h | 3,032 | 8,996 |
| 5 | October 7, 2018 21:00 | October 22, 2018 13:45 | 14d 16h | 2,856 | 118K |
| 6 | September 1, 2018 03:45 | September 3, 2018 15:15 | 2d 11h | 2,596 | 14K |
| 7 | February 27, 2018 15:00 | February 27, 2018 18:45 | 3h 45m | 2,260 | 3,399 |
| 8 | January 29, 2018 05:15 | January 29, 2018 06:15 | 1h | 2,194 | 552 |
| 9 | December 9, 2018 15:30 | December 11, 2018 15:30 | 2d | 2,082 | 18K |
| 10 | August 11, 2018 08:30 | August 11, 2018 19:15 | 10h 45m | 1,695 | 1,762 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 85 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Franklin 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county