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2020 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1268th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Tazewell County, 2020
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 12, 2020 12:15 | February 12, 2020 17:15 | 5h | 1,561 | 1,185 |
| 2 | April 8, 2020 12:15 | April 10, 2020 03:45 | 1d 15h | 1,446 | 4,476 |
| 3 | December 24, 2020 00:00 | December 24, 2020 19:15 | 19h 15m | 1,411 | 3,859 |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 01:30 | July 10, 2020 02:00 | 1d | 1,368 | 4,249 |
| 5 | June 1, 2020 13:45 | June 1, 2020 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,366 | 1,676 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 01:45 | April 14, 2020 19:00 | 1d 17h | 1,290 | 7,780 |
| 7 | July 19, 2020 19:45 | July 22, 2020 03:15 | 2d 7h | 1,194 | 4,563 |
| 8 | February 25, 2020 09:15 | February 25, 2020 16:15 | 7h | 1,040 | 3,235 |
| 9 | April 1, 2020 18:15 | April 2, 2020 00:00 | 5h 45m | 899 | 247 |
| 10 | May 3, 2020 17:45 | May 3, 2020 20:45 | 3h | 891 | 2,670 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/virginia/tazewell-county