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2019 Smyth County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Smyth County, VA went without power for an average of 13.0 hours, a total of 243K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 414th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Smyth County, 2019
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 17, 2019 22:45 | June 19, 2019 23:15 | 2d | 3,038 | 41K |
| 2 | May 29, 2019 19:30 | June 1, 2019 02:45 | 2d 7h | 3,000 | 26K |
| 3 | May 17, 2019 11:30 | May 17, 2019 13:15 | 1h 45m | 2,042 | 3,363 |
| 4 | March 24, 2019 18:15 | March 24, 2019 21:15 | 3h | 2,009 | 571 |
| 5 | March 31, 2019 18:45 | March 31, 2019 21:15 | 2h 30m | 2,005 | 4,512 |
| 6 | August 22, 2019 17:45 | August 22, 2019 23:45 | 6h | 1,860 | 1,952 |
| 7 | July 13, 2019 11:30 | July 13, 2019 18:00 | 6h 30m | 1,842 | 11K |
| 8 | May 5, 2019 11:00 | May 5, 2019 20:30 | 9h 30m | 1,819 | 9,699 |
| 9 | October 21, 2019 14:30 | October 21, 2019 21:45 | 7h 15m | 1,612 | 1,634 |
| 10 | November 13, 2019 04:15 | November 13, 2019 15:30 | 11h 15m | 1,544 | 7,069 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 71 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Smyth County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,737 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. Smyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smyth County, VA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/virginia/smyth-county