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2021 Wythe County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wythe County, VA went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 209K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 693rd 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 Wythe 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 | January 28, 2021 03:15 | January 31, 2021 06:15 | 3d 3h | 6,775 | 78K |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 16:15 | December 11, 2021 23:30 | 7h 15m | 2,693 | 2,552 |
| 3 | July 13, 2021 03:15 | July 13, 2021 08:00 | 4h 45m | 2,328 | 11K |
| 4 | December 6, 2021 05:45 | December 6, 2021 06:00 | 15m | 2,311 | 578 |
| 5 | July 26, 2021 18:00 | July 27, 2021 21:45 | 1d 3h | 2,232 | 3,538 |
| 6 | February 13, 2021 05:15 | February 15, 2021 00:15 | 1d 19h | 2,053 | 20K |
| 7 | July 28, 2021 18:30 | July 28, 2021 21:30 | 3h | 2,049 | 2,056 |
| 8 | February 5, 2021 04:00 | February 5, 2021 10:00 | 6h | 2,009 | 862 |
| 9 | September 28, 2021 13:45 | September 28, 2021 19:30 | 5h 45m | 1,908 | 1,718 |
| 10 | February 23, 2021 17:45 | February 24, 2021 01:45 | 8h | 1,612 | 2,978 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 50 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/wythe-county