County annual report · FIPS 51005
2023 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 16.9 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 510th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alleghany County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 28, 2023 05:30 | July 28, 2023 09:30 | 4h | 1,073 | 1,818 |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 21:45 | July 30, 2023 22:45 | 2d 1h | 1,052 | 14K |
| 3 | September 20, 2023 13:45 | September 20, 2023 18:30 | 4h 45m | 865 | 2,348 |
| 4 | September 7, 2023 21:45 | September 7, 2023 23:30 | 1h 45m | 680 | 851 |
| 5 | July 13, 2023 20:00 | July 15, 2023 00:15 | 1d 4h | 673 | 2,165 |
| 6 | March 28, 2023 17:00 | March 28, 2023 19:30 | 2h 30m | 664 | 626 |
| 7 | August 27, 2023 03:00 | August 27, 2023 07:30 | 4h 30m | 597 | 256 |
| 8 | December 11, 2023 02:45 | December 11, 2023 14:45 | 12h | 577 | 340 |
| 9 | July 15, 2023 01:30 | July 17, 2023 13:00 | 2d 11h | 559 | 5,187 |
| 10 | August 3, 2023 21:15 | August 4, 2023 00:45 | 3h 30m | 547 | 441 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 44 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Alleghany County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany County, VA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/virginia/alleghany-county