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2018 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 18.6 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 303rd 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 Stafford 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 | March 1, 2018 22:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 4d 2h | 33,108 | 953K |
| 2 | August 12, 2018 20:15 | August 14, 2018 20:30 | 2d | 15,523 | 125K |
| 3 | October 19, 2018 22:15 | October 20, 2018 00:45 | 2h 30m | 7,264 | 6,612 |
| 4 | October 11, 2018 21:00 | October 13, 2018 10:15 | 1d 13h | 6,328 | 37K |
| 5 | July 21, 2018 15:45 | July 23, 2018 01:30 | 1d 9h | 4,191 | 6,698 |
| 6 | June 2, 2018 14:15 | June 3, 2018 11:30 | 21h 15m | 3,796 | 3,494 |
| 7 | May 3, 2018 10:15 | May 3, 2018 17:30 | 7h 15m | 3,772 | 12K |
| 8 | September 9, 2018 08:15 | September 10, 2018 00:30 | 16h 15m | 3,416 | 4,491 |
| 9 | November 10, 2018 19:15 | November 11, 2018 01:00 | 5h 45m | 3,003 | 1,249 |
| 10 | November 24, 2018 21:15 | November 25, 2018 12:00 | 14h 45m | 2,722 | 5,684 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 79 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 Stafford 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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county