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2019 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 648th 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 Tazewell 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 | February 20, 2019 06:45 | February 22, 2019 02:30 | 1d 19h | 6,723 | 48K |
| 2 | January 13, 2019 05:30 | January 13, 2019 11:15 | 5h 45m | 5,370 | 15K |
| 3 | May 12, 2019 12:30 | May 12, 2019 18:30 | 6h | 3,598 | 9,901 |
| 4 | November 14, 2019 23:45 | November 15, 2019 00:00 | 15m | 1,552 | 388 |
| 5 | November 15, 2019 01:45 | November 15, 2019 02:45 | 1h | 1,552 | 1,552 |
| 6 | January 23, 2019 07:00 | January 25, 2019 00:45 | 1d 17h | 1,401 | 6,879 |
| 7 | April 14, 2019 14:30 | April 15, 2019 14:15 | 23h 45m | 1,369 | 4,273 |
| 8 | May 29, 2019 13:45 | May 31, 2019 01:00 | 1d 11h | 1,153 | 2,353 |
| 9 | March 4, 2019 04:15 | March 4, 2019 16:45 | 12h 30m | 940 | 589 |
| 10 | July 15, 2019 21:15 | July 17, 2019 00:00 | 1d 2h | 893 | 3,936 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 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 Tazewell 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 |
| 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; 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, 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/tazewell-county