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2018 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 37.1 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 157th 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 Wise 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 | June 13, 2018 06:30 | June 13, 2018 08:00 | 1h 30m | 6,338 | 7,261 |
| 2 | June 19, 2018 12:15 | June 20, 2018 01:15 | 13h | 2,554 | 6,671 |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 13:00 | December 14, 2018 00:00 | 4d 11h | 2,097 | 39K |
| 4 | June 1, 2018 13:45 | June 3, 2018 01:30 | 1d 11h | 2,079 | 7,746 |
| 5 | June 26, 2018 12:15 | June 27, 2018 02:30 | 14h 15m | 1,814 | 4,027 |
| 6 | April 17, 2018 04:45 | April 17, 2018 07:45 | 3h | 1,809 | 4,041 |
| 7 | June 10, 2018 15:15 | June 10, 2018 23:15 | 8h | 1,224 | 2,199 |
| 8 | December 27, 2018 22:30 | December 28, 2018 00:30 | 2h | 1,022 | 771 |
| 9 | July 6, 2018 17:45 | July 7, 2018 04:45 | 11h | 930 | 2,015 |
| 10 | May 4, 2018 23:45 | May 5, 2018 02:15 | 2h 30m | 878 | 664 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 78 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 88 min | 1.44 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; 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, 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/wise-county