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2018 Spotsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Spotsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 594K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 578th 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 Spotsylvania 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 | May 14, 2018 23:00 | May 17, 2018 05:00 | 2d 6h | 23,901 | 229K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 05:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 19h | 11,223 | 243K |
| 3 | August 6, 2018 17:30 | August 6, 2018 17:45 | 15m | 8,896 | 2,224 |
| 4 | December 6, 2018 01:15 | December 6, 2018 02:45 | 1h 30m | 5,183 | 2,284 |
| 5 | September 23, 2018 15:30 | September 23, 2018 22:45 | 7h 15m | 3,038 | 4,567 |
| 6 | July 30, 2018 15:45 | July 31, 2018 03:15 | 11h 30m | 2,459 | 1,103 |
| 7 | October 22, 2018 04:00 | October 22, 2018 04:45 | 45m | 2,425 | 607 |
| 8 | May 17, 2018 07:30 | May 19, 2018 19:45 | 2d 12h | 2,027 | 6,507 |
| 9 | March 20, 2018 13:30 | March 20, 2018 17:15 | 3h 45m | 1,951 | 1,001 |
| 10 | November 22, 2018 11:00 | November 22, 2018 21:15 | 10h 15m | 1,930 | 2,056 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 87 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Spotsylvania 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 |
| 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 ÷ 62,155 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. Spotsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spotsylvania 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/spotsylvania-county