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2019 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 372nd 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 Wise 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 | August 18, 2019 19:15 | August 19, 2019 06:00 | 10h 45m | 1,877 | 5,845 |
| 2 | December 14, 2019 23:00 | December 15, 2019 00:45 | 1h 45m | 1,075 | 1,077 |
| 3 | September 13, 2019 15:30 | September 13, 2019 18:15 | 2h 45m | 956 | 1,201 |
| 4 | December 30, 2019 08:15 | December 30, 2019 17:15 | 9h | 837 | 1,311 |
| 5 | January 23, 2019 05:15 | January 23, 2019 23:30 | 18h 15m | 678 | 927 |
| 6 | May 1, 2019 15:45 | May 2, 2019 16:45 | 1d 1h | 594 | 774 |
| 7 | February 23, 2019 15:30 | February 24, 2019 01:45 | 10h 15m | 577 | 1,615 |
| 8 | June 8, 2019 12:30 | June 8, 2019 21:00 | 8h 30m | 572 | 1,072 |
| 9 | July 1, 2019 14:00 | July 2, 2019 01:30 | 11h 30m | 526 | 2,098 |
| 10 | February 24, 2019 07:00 | February 25, 2019 04:00 | 21h | 465 | 1,337 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; 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, 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/wise-county