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2021 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 31.2 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 287th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wise County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 5, 2021 20:30 | June 5, 2021 23:45 | 3h 15m | 7,462 | 19K |
| 2 | May 24, 2021 16:00 | June 4, 2021 23:15 | 11d 7h | 1,813 | 3,957 |
| 3 | March 4, 2021 21:45 | March 5, 2021 06:30 | 8h 45m | 1,512 | 3,060 |
| 4 | May 9, 2021 12:30 | May 11, 2021 21:45 | 2d 9h | 1,367 | 19K |
| 5 | August 7, 2021 18:45 | August 8, 2021 03:30 | 8h 45m | 1,325 | 2,602 |
| 6 | February 12, 2021 01:15 | February 14, 2021 22:45 | 2d 21h | 1,278 | 10K |
| 7 | February 7, 2021 08:30 | February 8, 2021 22:45 | 1d 14h | 1,217 | 4,580 |
| 8 | July 9, 2021 10:30 | July 9, 2021 12:00 | 1h 30m | 1,096 | 279 |
| 9 | March 28, 2021 06:45 | March 28, 2021 19:00 | 12h 15m | 974 | 1,991 |
| 10 | December 15, 2021 14:00 | December 15, 2021 20:45 | 6h 45m | 923 | 606 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 54 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 Wise County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 | 2.6 hrs | 1.81 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/virginia/wise-county