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2018 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 73.1 hours, a total of 390K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 89th 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 Lancaster 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 12, 2018 01:15 | October 15, 2018 21:15 | 3d 20h | 6,657 | 222K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 07:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 18h | 2,958 | 107K |
| 3 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 19, 2018 14:45 | 13d 11h | 1,924 | 5,003 |
| 4 | June 24, 2018 22:00 | June 25, 2018 01:30 | 3h 30m | 1,241 | 1,070 |
| 5 | August 17, 2018 19:30 | August 18, 2018 00:45 | 5h 15m | 1,139 | 1,558 |
| 6 | December 9, 2018 20:45 | December 11, 2018 12:00 | 1d 15h | 1,136 | 21K |
| 7 | January 6, 2018 11:45 | January 6, 2018 17:00 | 5h 15m | 586 | 1,607 |
| 8 | July 22, 2018 21:00 | July 23, 2018 07:00 | 10h | 522 | 2,116 |
| 9 | July 27, 2018 23:00 | July 28, 2018 15:15 | 16h 15m | 492 | 4,751 |
| 10 | August 20, 2018 20:00 | August 20, 2018 21:00 | 1h | 451 | 338 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/lancaster-county