County annual report · FIPS 51680
2018 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 817K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 406th 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 Lynchburg city, 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 | April 15, 2018 20:15 | April 22, 2018 01:00 | 6d 4h | 12,453 | 383K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 04:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 20h | 7,259 | 238K |
| 3 | August 2, 2018 15:00 | August 4, 2018 06:45 | 1d 15h | 4,261 | 16K |
| 4 | June 9, 2018 13:00 | June 9, 2018 19:15 | 6h 15m | 4,156 | 10K |
| 5 | June 9, 2018 22:00 | June 11, 2018 03:15 | 1d 5h | 2,172 | 22K |
| 6 | January 9, 2018 09:45 | January 10, 2018 02:30 | 16h 45m | 1,980 | 3,829 |
| 7 | January 7, 2018 11:00 | January 8, 2018 09:30 | 22h 30m | 1,953 | 9,606 |
| 8 | May 10, 2018 13:00 | May 12, 2018 05:15 | 1d 16h | 1,442 | 4,657 |
| 9 | October 11, 2018 19:00 | October 13, 2018 18:45 | 1d 23h | 1,417 | 12K |
| 10 | March 11, 2018 07:30 | March 11, 2018 14:00 | 6h 30m | 1,160 | 2,002 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 77 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Lynchburg city 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 |
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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, 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/lynchburg-city