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2018 Scott County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Scott County, VA went without power for an average of 55.4 hours, a total of 663K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 112th 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 Scott 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 07:15 | December 15, 2018 05:00 | 5d 21h | 10,353 | 484K |
| 2 | March 27, 2018 15:45 | March 27, 2018 17:15 | 1h 30m | 3,594 | 2,699 |
| 3 | July 21, 2018 01:30 | July 23, 2018 20:45 | 2d 19h | 2,890 | 35K |
| 4 | November 24, 2018 13:45 | November 25, 2018 02:00 | 12h 15m | 2,148 | 2,995 |
| 5 | June 16, 2018 10:15 | June 16, 2018 18:00 | 7h 45m | 1,707 | 13K |
| 6 | May 5, 2018 22:00 | May 6, 2018 14:00 | 16h | 1,510 | 843 |
| 7 | March 25, 2018 17:30 | March 26, 2018 04:00 | 10h 30m | 1,434 | 8,750 |
| 8 | May 24, 2018 19:30 | May 24, 2018 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1,189 | 2,041 |
| 9 | December 2, 2018 20:45 | December 3, 2018 03:00 | 6h 15m | 1,183 | 6,504 |
| 10 | March 24, 2018 23:00 | March 25, 2018 12:45 | 13h 45m | 1,110 | 4,486 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 68 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Scott 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 88 min | 1.44 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2018 | 25 min | 0.50 | 15 min | 0.40 |
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 ÷ 11,959 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county