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2018 Wythe County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wythe County, VA went without power for an average of 39.2 hours, a total of 699K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 150th 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 Wythe 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 | March 24, 2018 19:15 | April 3, 2018 23:15 | 10d 4h | 9,625 | 547K |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 14:00 | November 18, 2018 22:15 | 3d 8h | 3,801 | 21K |
| 3 | August 31, 2018 19:30 | September 1, 2018 23:15 | 1d 3h | 3,111 | 15K |
| 4 | July 22, 2018 12:15 | July 22, 2018 23:15 | 11h | 2,582 | 4,936 |
| 5 | February 25, 2018 21:15 | February 26, 2018 22:30 | 1d 1h | 2,355 | 5,391 |
| 6 | June 17, 2018 07:45 | June 17, 2018 14:00 | 6h 15m | 2,306 | 4,564 |
| 7 | January 12, 2018 02:00 | January 12, 2018 21:45 | 19h 45m | 2,303 | 8,810 |
| 8 | May 6, 2018 02:45 | May 6, 2018 11:15 | 8h 30m | 2,275 | 17K |
| 9 | June 11, 2018 10:00 | June 12, 2018 01:30 | 15h 30m | 2,275 | 790 |
| 10 | September 9, 2018 02:15 | September 9, 2018 09:00 | 6h 45m | 2,016 | 8,061 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 51 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 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 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/wythe-county