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2020 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 27.9 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 307th 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 Wise 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 | April 12, 2020 23:30 | April 15, 2020 02:00 | 2d 2h | 2,203 | 37K |
| 2 | July 24, 2020 08:30 | July 24, 2020 11:30 | 3h | 2,035 | 2,324 |
| 3 | July 30, 2020 21:15 | July 31, 2020 01:00 | 3h 45m | 1,095 | 1,461 |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 07:00 | February 6, 2020 09:15 | 2h 15m | 1,037 | 948 |
| 5 | October 29, 2020 11:15 | October 30, 2020 03:15 | 16h | 823 | 573 |
| 6 | June 12, 2020 17:15 | June 12, 2020 18:15 | 1h | 807 | 301 |
| 7 | November 23, 2020 11:30 | November 23, 2020 12:45 | 1h 15m | 781 | 362 |
| 8 | October 16, 2020 01:45 | October 16, 2020 15:00 | 13h 15m | 710 | 871 |
| 9 | July 20, 2020 15:00 | July 21, 2020 15:30 | 1d | 658 | 4,947 |
| 10 | August 29, 2020 08:45 | August 29, 2020 17:45 | 9h | 644 | 1,899 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/wise-county