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2018 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 19.4 hours, a total of 359K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 124 Virginia counties and 289th 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 Orange 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 | February 8, 2018 04:00 | February 8, 2018 17:45 | 13h 45m | 6,350 | 25K |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 22:30 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 10d | 6,272 | 113K |
| 3 | November 1, 2018 17:15 | November 1, 2018 19:15 | 2h | 5,136 | 5,598 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 05:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 20h | 3,283 | 115K |
| 5 | November 15, 2018 15:30 | November 17, 2018 20:30 | 2d 5h | 2,805 | 52K |
| 6 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | June 26, 2018 17:30 | 32d 7h | 1,218 | 18K |
| 7 | September 9, 2018 16:15 | September 9, 2018 17:30 | 1h 15m | 946 | 1,179 |
| 8 | July 27, 2018 14:30 | July 29, 2018 02:45 | 1d 12h | 715 | 3,730 |
| 9 | July 16, 2018 19:15 | July 17, 2018 13:00 | 17h 45m | 698 | 1,982 |
| 10 | December 22, 2018 14:00 | December 22, 2018 18:00 | 4h | 496 | 1,244 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 36 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 Orange 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2018 | 13.3 hrs | 3.94 | 2.9 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county