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2016 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 103rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 889th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Tazewell County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 26, 2016 13:15 | September 26, 2016 18:00 | 4h 45m | 2,798 | 4,897 |
| 2 | June 24, 2016 00:15 | June 24, 2016 19:45 | 19h 30m | 1,076 | 1,762 |
| 3 | July 5, 2016 07:45 | July 5, 2016 23:00 | 15h 15m | 938 | 8,345 |
| 4 | July 6, 2016 14:00 | July 7, 2016 06:30 | 16h 30m | 937 | 1,669 |
| 5 | April 21, 2016 16:30 | April 21, 2016 18:15 | 1h 45m | 672 | 1,176 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 20:15 | July 10, 2016 01:45 | 1d 5h | 645 | 7,470 |
| 7 | August 16, 2016 23:45 | August 17, 2016 19:00 | 19h 15m | 468 | 3,408 |
| 8 | June 4, 2016 22:45 | June 6, 2016 00:30 | 1d 1h | 466 | 2,211 |
| 9 | April 14, 2016 22:30 | April 15, 2016 19:45 | 21h 15m | 432 | 502 |
| 10 | November 28, 2016 23:30 | November 30, 2016 00:00 | 1d | 415 | 2,948 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Tazewell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Richlands - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 21,376 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. Tazewell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tazewell County, VA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/virginia/tazewell-county