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2017 Wythe County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wythe County, VA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 114K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 821st 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 Wythe 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 | October 29, 2017 06:15 | October 29, 2017 08:00 | 1h 45m | 2,594 | 4,540 |
| 2 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 24, 2017 20:00 | 7d 1h | 2,583 | 24K |
| 3 | October 10, 2017 13:15 | October 10, 2017 18:30 | 5h 15m | 2,331 | 2,976 |
| 4 | March 19, 2017 20:45 | March 20, 2017 00:00 | 3h 15m | 2,286 | 7,018 |
| 5 | February 12, 2017 20:00 | February 12, 2017 23:00 | 3h | 2,267 | 6,770 |
| 6 | October 21, 2017 14:30 | October 21, 2017 20:00 | 5h 30m | 1,947 | 1,964 |
| 7 | December 14, 2017 08:45 | December 14, 2017 17:45 | 9h | 1,568 | 2,468 |
| 8 | August 26, 2017 23:15 | August 27, 2017 02:00 | 2h 45m | 1,565 | 3,513 |
| 9 | December 17, 2017 03:30 | December 17, 2017 20:15 | 16h 45m | 1,524 | 5,835 |
| 10 | March 10, 2017 17:00 | March 10, 2017 21:15 | 4h 15m | 1,472 | 845 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Wythe 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 |
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 ÷ 17,849 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. Wythe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wythe 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/wythe-county