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2020 Wythe County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wythe County, VA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1274th 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 Wythe 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 6, 2020 11:30 | February 6, 2020 22:00 | 10h 30m | 2,606 | 5,992 |
| 2 | May 20, 2020 01:45 | May 20, 2020 20:00 | 18h 15m | 2,357 | 1,232 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 15:00 | July 21, 2020 23:15 | 8h 15m | 2,285 | 3,479 |
| 4 | February 13, 2020 12:30 | February 13, 2020 16:45 | 4h 15m | 2,279 | 6,413 |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 12:45 | November 15, 2020 23:30 | 10h 45m | 1,810 | 4,371 |
| 6 | August 26, 2020 02:30 | August 26, 2020 22:30 | 20h | 1,616 | 5,364 |
| 7 | November 1, 2020 14:30 | November 2, 2020 22:15 | 1d 7h | 1,588 | 4,288 |
| 8 | August 3, 2020 13:45 | August 4, 2020 02:15 | 12h 30m | 1,340 | 2,244 |
| 9 | May 14, 2020 11:00 | May 14, 2020 22:00 | 11h | 1,321 | 4,227 |
| 10 | January 11, 2020 14:30 | January 11, 2020 21:00 | 6h 30m | 1,086 | 916 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 51 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Wythe 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 |
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 ÷ 17,849 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. Wythe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wythe 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/wythe-county