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2018 Rockingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rockingham County, VA went without power for an average of 19.0 hours, a total of 662K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 297th 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 Rockingham 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 | November 15, 2018 17:45 | November 20, 2018 05:15 | 4d 11h | 11,773 | 400K |
| 2 | January 31, 2018 07:30 | January 31, 2018 21:00 | 13h 30m | 8,226 | 27K |
| 3 | May 14, 2018 17:00 | May 16, 2018 18:15 | 2d 1h | 4,445 | 32K |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 03:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 21h | 4,048 | 76K |
| 5 | January 12, 2018 05:30 | January 12, 2018 22:15 | 16h 45m | 3,705 | 9,259 |
| 6 | August 2, 2018 20:15 | August 3, 2018 22:00 | 1d 1h | 2,777 | 7,485 |
| 7 | January 23, 2018 10:15 | January 23, 2018 17:15 | 7h | 2,443 | 1,456 |
| 8 | December 18, 2018 17:30 | December 18, 2018 22:00 | 4h 30m | 2,129 | 1,083 |
| 9 | June 2, 2018 18:00 | June 4, 2018 02:00 | 1d 8h | 1,992 | 2,383 |
| 10 | July 25, 2018 00:15 | July 25, 2018 07:00 | 6h 45m | 1,910 | 932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 103 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Rockingham 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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2018 | 9.5 hrs | 2.25 | 3.3 hrs | 1.73 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Harrisonburg - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Elkton | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 34,838 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. Rockingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockingham 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/rockingham-county