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2018 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 236K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 500th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Tazewell County, 2018
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 18, 2018 22:00 | October 19, 2018 00:45 | 2h 45m | 6,299 | 12K |
| 2 | July 17, 2018 12:15 | July 18, 2018 20:45 | 1d 8h | 4,489 | 12K |
| 3 | March 24, 2018 18:15 | March 28, 2018 21:45 | 4d 3h | 2,656 | 56K |
| 4 | August 20, 2018 19:30 | August 20, 2018 22:00 | 2h 30m | 1,660 | 1,251 |
| 5 | July 3, 2018 22:30 | July 4, 2018 08:00 | 9h 30m | 1,568 | 4,907 |
| 6 | November 20, 2018 16:45 | November 20, 2018 20:45 | 4h | 1,398 | 539 |
| 7 | October 1, 2018 14:15 | October 2, 2018 22:30 | 1d 8h | 1,393 | 595 |
| 8 | February 25, 2018 14:30 | February 25, 2018 23:45 | 9h 15m | 1,194 | 7,094 |
| 9 | May 26, 2018 12:45 | May 27, 2018 07:15 | 18h 30m | 1,147 | 8,322 |
| 10 | December 21, 2018 00:45 | December 21, 2018 01:15 | 30m | 1,121 | 561 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 62 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/tazewell-county