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2017 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1020th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Tazewell County, 2017
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 1, 2017 03:00 | May 2, 2017 03:30 | 1d | 2,307 | 6,254 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 03:45 | April 6, 2017 20:15 | 16h 30m | 2,017 | 4,773 |
| 3 | April 26, 2017 12:45 | April 26, 2017 19:00 | 6h 15m | 1,700 | 756 |
| 4 | October 4, 2017 13:30 | October 4, 2017 19:00 | 5h 30m | 1,203 | 4,470 |
| 5 | December 19, 2017 22:45 | December 20, 2017 23:30 | 1d | 1,171 | 5,090 |
| 6 | July 10, 2017 13:30 | July 11, 2017 21:15 | 1d 7h | 1,000 | 1,783 |
| 7 | August 27, 2017 13:15 | August 27, 2017 14:45 | 1h 30m | 942 | 241 |
| 8 | September 1, 2017 20:15 | September 2, 2017 14:15 | 18h | 898 | 5,236 |
| 9 | September 12, 2017 01:45 | September 12, 2017 18:00 | 16h 15m | 757 | 4,977 |
| 10 | February 17, 2017 14:30 | February 17, 2017 20:45 | 6h 15m | 661 | 2,027 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 41 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 Tazewell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/virginia/tazewell-county