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2023 Fauquier County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fauquier County, VA went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 218K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1162nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fauquier County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 7, 2023 20:30 | August 9, 2023 21:30 | 2d 1h | 10,670 | 112K |
| 2 | April 30, 2023 12:00 | May 2, 2023 01:30 | 1d 13h | 3,461 | 3,817 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 16:15 | April 4, 2023 06:30 | 2d 14h | 2,661 | 21K |
| 4 | July 28, 2023 20:30 | July 31, 2023 00:15 | 2d 3h | 1,898 | 11K |
| 5 | May 30, 2023 14:00 | May 30, 2023 19:15 | 5h 15m | 1,654 | 629 |
| 6 | August 18, 2023 20:45 | August 19, 2023 04:30 | 7h 45m | 1,543 | 1,638 |
| 7 | December 11, 2023 02:45 | December 12, 2023 02:15 | 23h 30m | 1,500 | 1,141 |
| 8 | June 21, 2023 19:00 | June 22, 2023 02:45 | 7h 45m | 1,357 | 1,370 |
| 9 | September 7, 2023 18:00 | September 8, 2023 19:15 | 1d 1h | 1,171 | 3,248 |
| 10 | March 4, 2023 14:00 | March 4, 2023 23:15 | 9h 15m | 832 | 1,750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 68 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Fauquier County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.88 | 40 min | 0.57 |
| 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 31,801 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. Fauquier County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fauquier County, VA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/virginia/fauquier-county