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2018 Hanover County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hanover County, VA went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 766K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 359th 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 Hanover 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 | October 11, 2018 19:45 | October 16, 2018 16:15 | 4d 20h | 14,771 | 448K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 05:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 19h | 10,515 | 137K |
| 3 | September 17, 2018 08:00 | September 20, 2018 16:30 | 3d 8h | 7,291 | 9,635 |
| 4 | May 14, 2018 20:15 | May 17, 2018 03:45 | 2d 7h | 5,006 | 31K |
| 5 | March 6, 2018 22:45 | March 7, 2018 06:15 | 7h 30m | 3,660 | 4,911 |
| 6 | March 8, 2018 19:00 | March 9, 2018 11:30 | 16h 30m | 3,205 | 4,698 |
| 7 | April 16, 2018 04:45 | April 16, 2018 14:00 | 9h 15m | 2,411 | 1,191 |
| 8 | August 17, 2018 11:45 | August 17, 2018 15:30 | 3h 45m | 2,060 | 1,317 |
| 9 | July 30, 2018 05:15 | July 30, 2018 10:45 | 5h 30m | 2,056 | 1,168 |
| 10 | August 19, 2018 14:30 | August 20, 2018 04:45 | 14h 15m | 1,920 | 2,441 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 82 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Hanover 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 |
| 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 ÷ 49,633 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. Hanover County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hanover 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/hanover-county