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2015 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 33.1 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 68th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wise County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 8, 2015 08:45 | January 8, 2015 18:15 | 9h 30m | 6,745 | 22K |
| 2 | July 13, 2015 21:45 | July 17, 2015 14:00 | 3d 16h | 3,595 | 32K |
| 3 | April 9, 2015 23:00 | April 10, 2015 21:00 | 22h | 1,856 | 9,918 |
| 4 | June 21, 2015 21:00 | June 22, 2015 11:15 | 14h 15m | 1,351 | 5,168 |
| 5 | September 12, 2015 14:30 | September 12, 2015 17:45 | 3h 15m | 1,088 | 299 |
| 6 | March 5, 2015 14:00 | March 6, 2015 07:30 | 17h 30m | 1,049 | 5,131 |
| 7 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 19, 2015 06:15 | 14h 30m | 899 | 3,565 |
| 8 | February 20, 2015 07:45 | February 20, 2015 20:15 | 12h 30m | 831 | 2,655 |
| 9 | October 13, 2015 05:30 | October 13, 2015 06:30 | 1h | 801 | 403 |
| 10 | December 13, 2015 05:15 | December 13, 2015 05:45 | 30m | 711 | 356 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 49 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Wise County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2015 | 11.7 hrs | 2.41 | 7.9 hrs | 2.21 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.43 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,750 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. Wise County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wise County, VA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/virginia/wise-county