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2018 Rockbridge County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rockbridge County, VA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 114th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 1443rd 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 Rockbridge 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 | August 17, 2018 21:45 | August 18, 2018 06:30 | 8h 45m | 1,339 | 803 |
| 2 | September 28, 2018 05:00 | September 28, 2018 17:30 | 12h 30m | 1,284 | 4,345 |
| 3 | November 15, 2018 13:45 | November 18, 2018 17:30 | 3d 3h | 948 | 14K |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 07:00 | March 4, 2018 20:30 | 2d 13h | 861 | 5,663 |
| 5 | April 20, 2018 20:45 | April 21, 2018 00:15 | 3h 30m | 570 | 386 |
| 6 | February 4, 2018 19:30 | February 5, 2018 00:30 | 5h | 540 | 1,887 |
| 7 | January 19, 2018 18:00 | January 19, 2018 19:15 | 1h 15m | 510 | 499 |
| 8 | November 22, 2018 02:00 | November 22, 2018 04:15 | 2h 15m | 403 | 907 |
| 9 | January 5, 2018 17:15 | January 5, 2018 22:45 | 5h 30m | 319 | 323 |
| 10 | January 13, 2018 10:45 | January 13, 2018 18:45 | 8h | 263 | 1,794 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 18 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Rockbridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2018 | 9.5 hrs | 2.25 | 3.3 hrs | 1.73 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 ÷ 11,617 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. Rockbridge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockbridge 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/rockbridge-county