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2017 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 27.4 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 195th 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 Wise 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 | March 1, 2017 10:45 | March 2, 2017 17:30 | 1d 6h | 6,532 | 23K |
| 2 | May 10, 2017 10:45 | May 10, 2017 13:00 | 2h 15m | 6,287 | 3,689 |
| 3 | May 27, 2017 22:45 | May 28, 2017 22:45 | 1d | 2,526 | 9,560 |
| 4 | June 17, 2017 06:45 | June 17, 2017 12:30 | 5h 45m | 2,513 | 5,546 |
| 5 | October 16, 2017 04:30 | October 16, 2017 07:15 | 2h 45m | 2,105 | 4,466 |
| 6 | May 1, 2017 12:45 | May 3, 2017 20:15 | 2d 7h | 1,819 | 11K |
| 7 | June 13, 2017 04:30 | June 13, 2017 05:45 | 1h 15m | 1,060 | 531 |
| 8 | August 29, 2017 12:00 | August 29, 2017 14:30 | 2h 30m | 803 | 622 |
| 9 | May 4, 2017 16:00 | May 5, 2017 02:00 | 10h | 730 | 2,317 |
| 10 | June 12, 2017 13:00 | June 12, 2017 20:30 | 7h 30m | 671 | 1,446 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 53 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 | 80 min | 0.83 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.2 hrs | 2.36 | 1.7 hrs | 2.23 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/wise-county