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2018 Shenandoah County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Shenandoah County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 118K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 106th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 833rd 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 Shenandoah 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 | July 4, 2018 20:00 | July 5, 2018 06:45 | 10h 45m | 2,761 | 4,771 |
| 2 | January 13, 2018 04:15 | January 13, 2018 17:15 | 13h | 2,357 | 4,556 |
| 3 | July 25, 2018 01:45 | July 25, 2018 03:15 | 1h 30m | 2,283 | 3,197 |
| 4 | August 17, 2018 17:00 | August 17, 2018 17:45 | 45m | 2,205 | 785 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 04:00 | March 5, 2018 03:45 | 2d 23h | 2,192 | 38K |
| 6 | May 31, 2018 14:15 | May 31, 2018 18:30 | 4h 15m | 2,064 | 584 |
| 7 | October 31, 2018 13:45 | October 31, 2018 15:30 | 1h 45m | 1,986 | 950 |
| 8 | August 23, 2018 02:45 | August 23, 2018 11:45 | 9h | 1,947 | 5,879 |
| 9 | March 21, 2018 13:45 | March 21, 2018 15:45 | 2h | 1,792 | 3,584 |
| 10 | February 14, 2018 12:15 | February 14, 2018 16:15 | 4h | 1,674 | 906 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 53 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Shenandoah 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,066 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. Shenandoah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shenandoah 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/shenandoah-county