VI Update · Data package · v1.0 · November 2026

What WAPA’s outage map recorded, 23 March to 7 November 2026: the data

The data behind the VI Update report of the same name, v1.0, 9 November 2026.

Brian Louden · Independent investigative journalist · St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
VI Update · v1.0 · 9 November 2026
DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24094226

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What this is

Every response from WAPA’s public outage map, captured every five minutes from 23 March to 7 November 2026, flattened into tables; the matches and groupings the report uses, each with its written rule; and a program that rechecks the report’s figures. WAPA publishes the map; the raw responses themselves are the monthly files below.

Download

wapa-outage-record-v1.0.zip (41,539,604 bytes). SHA-256 b7b9b67470c1572b48fef7bddeac3ee82d29f671e5807c110493b6669ea036db. A fixed snapshot with its own Zenodo record and DOI, separate from the report's. Zenodo, the open research repository run by CERN, keeps the permanent copy.

The raw map responses, one zip per month (each poll’s three responses as captured, with the same masks as the package), with their own README and SHA-256 list:

DOI of this package: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24094228.

The report: https://viupdate.com/reports/WAPA-OutageMap-Record-v1.0.pdf (SHA-256 3259bd04d204ac1d6e5e3e56e09fda7dc1c1ea3b33e85c417670da6bd33ca24a); DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24094226.

License

Dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.

The report itself is CC BY 4.0.

How to cite

The data:

Louden, Brian. “What WAPA’s outage map recorded, 23 March to 7 November 2026: the data behind the report” (wapa-outage-record), v1.0, 9 November 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24094228.

The report:

Louden, Brian. “What WAPA’s outage map recorded, 23 March to 7 November 2026.” VI Update, v1.0, 9 November 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24094226.

Cite the original source of any record you use too; each file names its source.

Read this before using any number

1. Stale, missing and partial polls are never counted as zero outage (rules/poll-status.md).
2. WAPA’s feed froze from 24 July to 2 August 2026: no figure from that window is WAPA’s outage count.
3. Customer-hours are computed from the map; they are not the industry’s SAIDI measure.
4. St. Thomas, St. John and Water Island are one district (STTJ), one grid (rules/districts.md).

Check the figures

python reproduce.py checks every figure in the report that the package can compute against these files with Python's standard library and writes figures.csv (PASS or FAIL per figure, with the kind of file it reads); the package README lists the figures it cannot check. At this version: 4758 of 4758 checks pass, covering every figure in this report that the package can compute; the README names the 23 it cannot (money and testimony from the documents linked, IODA, storm and earthquake records, our weather join, simulated p-values), with where each comes from. sha256sum -c MANIFEST.sha256 checks every file against the list below.

Files

Masked

• 26 cells in as-filed/record_streets.csv: initials in a street label (the parcel and unit are kept; the initials read [initials removed])
• 543 cells in as-filed/record_streets.csv: person's name in a street label (the parcel and unit are kept; the name reads [name removed])
• 62,753 cells in as-filed/sightings.csv: record name that acts as a customer identifier ([customer identifier removed])
• 235 cells in joined/episodes.csv: record name that acts as a customer identifier ([customer identifier removed])
• 3 cells in joined/lineage_edges.csv: record name that acts as a customer identifier ([customer identifier removed])
• 237 cells in labeled/records.csv: record name that acts as a customer identifier ([customer identifier removed])
• 63,797 masks in all. The SQLite copy is built from the masked CSVs. The working data keeps the original values.

Not included

• The raw map responses (released separately, zipped by month).
• Map content for missing and stale polls; polls before 2026-03-23 13:49 UTC other than the 27 summaries and 27 records in as-filed/pre_capture_*.csv.
• WAPA ALERT messages beyond their text: e-mail headers, the recipient's address and message links are not included.
• News articles beyond the quoted sentence and its link.
• IODA internet-signal readings (cited in the report from IODA, Georgia Institute of Technology).
• CoCoRaHS rain reports, NDBC buoy records, USGS earthquake lists, NHC best tracks and NWS warnings.
• The investigation's scripts and working files, other than reproduce.py.
• Customer names, account numbers and contact details. Where WAPA's map data carried a record name that acts as a customer identifier, or a person's name in a street label, it is masked (above).