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2023 Bath County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bath County, VA went without power for an average of 17.8 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 473rd 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 Bath 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 | September 20, 2023 13:45 | September 20, 2023 15:45 | 2h | 3,971 | 4,804 |
| 2 | July 13, 2023 19:15 | July 14, 2023 13:00 | 17h 45m | 1,480 | 4,391 |
| 3 | March 25, 2023 14:15 | March 25, 2023 16:00 | 1h 45m | 1,074 | 1,880 |
| 4 | March 4, 2023 08:00 | March 4, 2023 23:30 | 15h 30m | 641 | 2,875 |
| 5 | December 26, 2023 00:45 | December 26, 2023 07:45 | 7h | 610 | 1,225 |
| 6 | July 3, 2023 06:15 | July 3, 2023 09:45 | 3h 30m | 606 | 1,391 |
| 7 | June 20, 2023 15:15 | June 20, 2023 16:45 | 1h 30m | 605 | 908 |
| 8 | April 11, 2023 17:45 | April 11, 2023 20:30 | 2h 45m | 604 | 305 |
| 9 | March 2, 2023 14:45 | March 2, 2023 18:00 | 3h 15m | 596 | 550 |
| 10 | March 28, 2023 17:00 | March 28, 2023 18:15 | 1h 15m | 541 | 453 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Bath 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 3,010 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. Bath County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bath 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/bath-county