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2018 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 184K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 466th 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 Russell 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 | December 9, 2018 13:15 | December 15, 2018 00:45 | 5d 11h | 5,362 | 62K |
| 2 | November 1, 2018 13:15 | November 2, 2018 18:30 | 1d 5h | 1,317 | 2,802 |
| 3 | September 6, 2018 12:30 | September 6, 2018 23:30 | 11h | 1,204 | 10K |
| 4 | April 23, 2018 23:15 | April 24, 2018 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,034 | 1,292 |
| 5 | April 4, 2018 07:00 | April 4, 2018 20:45 | 13h 45m | 1,026 | 3,462 |
| 6 | November 6, 2018 12:15 | November 6, 2018 14:45 | 2h 30m | 979 | 1,854 |
| 7 | March 31, 2018 13:15 | March 31, 2018 20:15 | 7h | 855 | 3,552 |
| 8 | November 26, 2018 14:15 | November 26, 2018 21:00 | 6h 45m | 755 | 1,552 |
| 9 | December 27, 2018 19:00 | December 27, 2018 21:45 | 2h 45m | 755 | 1,145 |
| 10 | June 25, 2018 19:30 | June 27, 2018 15:15 | 1d 19h | 747 | 4,277 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 51 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county