County annual report · FIPS 51195
2016 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 26.0 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 113th 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 Wise 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 | May 28, 2016 11:30 | May 28, 2016 15:00 | 3h 30m | 6,364 | 4,660 |
| 2 | January 24, 2016 18:45 | January 25, 2016 05:45 | 11h | 1,832 | 12K |
| 3 | December 12, 2016 13:15 | December 12, 2016 15:30 | 2h 15m | 1,825 | 1,534 |
| 4 | June 24, 2016 00:45 | July 7, 2016 11:30 | 13d 10h | 1,174 | 5,495 |
| 5 | January 22, 2016 11:15 | January 22, 2016 20:15 | 9h | 982 | 1,467 |
| 6 | June 2, 2016 18:30 | June 3, 2016 17:30 | 23h | 965 | 1,017 |
| 7 | September 26, 2016 17:15 | September 26, 2016 23:00 | 5h 45m | 945 | 974 |
| 8 | March 16, 2016 21:30 | March 16, 2016 23:15 | 1h 45m | 934 | 301 |
| 9 | August 10, 2016 17:30 | August 10, 2016 22:15 | 4h 45m | 891 | 801 |
| 10 | November 30, 2016 09:30 | December 1, 2016 23:00 | 1d 13h | 888 | 2,030 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 61 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 | 2.0 hrs | 1.13 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 | 1.8 hrs | 1.60 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/wise-county