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County annual report · FIPS 51193

2018 Westmoreland County, VA Power Outage Report

In 2018, customers in Westmoreland County, VA went without power for an average of 24.4 hours, a total of 196K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 229th of 2,798 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
24.4
8,013 customers
Customer-hours out
196K
Peak customers out
4,605
Outages ≥1,000 out
5
0 of 10,000+ · 374 total
Longest outage
4d 1h
began October 12, 2018
Rank in state
53rd/124
229th of 2,798 US

Compared with VA, the US and 2017

Westmoreland County, VA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2018Westmoreland County 24.4 hours, Virginia average 18.7 hours, US average 5.6 hours, Westmoreland County, 2017 15.3 hoursWestmoreland CountyWestmoreland County24.4hVirginia averageVirginia average18.7hUS averageUS average5.6hWestmoreland County, 2017Westmoreland County,…15.3h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2018; last bar is this county in 2017.

Month by month

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Westmoreland County, VA customer-hours without power by month, 2018Jan 12K, Feb 4,506, Mar 104K, Apr 3,314, May 4,176, Jun 6,896, Jul 2,157, Aug 823, Sep 3,063, Oct 53K, Nov 1,097, Dec 600050k100k150k12KJan4,506Feb104KMar3,314Apr4,176May6,896Jun2,157Jul823Aug3,063Sep53KOct1,097Nov600Dec
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Customer-hours; March was the worst month.

Westmoreland County year over year

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Westmoreland County, VA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 9.3h; 2016: 11.2h; 2017: 15.3h; 2018: 24.4h, coverage 96%; 2019: 5.6h, coverage 97%; 2020: 9.9h, coverage 97%; 2021: 4.3h, coverage 97%; 2022: 18.6h, coverage 97%; 2023: 3.9h; 2024: 10.4h; 2025: 8.4h01020300%50%100%9.3h201511.2h201615.3h201724.4h20185.6h20199.9h20204.3h202118.6h20223.9h202310.4h20248.4h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Westmoreland County, 2018

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1March 2, 2018 10:00March 6, 2018 01:003d 15h4,605102K
2October 12, 2018 00:15October 16, 2018 02:004d 1h2,03252K
3January 12, 2018 23:15January 12, 2018 23:4530m1,112556
4January 13, 2018 02:30January 13, 2018 03:1545m1,112407
5January 5, 2018 01:30January 5, 2018 02:451h 15m1,016256
6June 4, 2018 09:45June 5, 2018 00:0014h 15m8453,557
7April 20, 2018 22:00April 20, 2018 22:1515m820205
8September 3, 2018 13:30September 3, 2018 17:153h 45m718813
9June 1, 2018 07:45June 1, 2018 19:0011h 15m6861,718
10July 22, 2018 10:15July 22, 2018 19:459h 30m6811,313

Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 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 Westmoreland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
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 ÷ 8,013 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/westmoreland-county

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