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2023 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 337K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1136th 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 Bedford 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 | April 1, 2023 10:00 | April 5, 2023 01:15 | 3d 15h | 2,487 | 21K |
| 2 | September 14, 2023 01:15 | September 14, 2023 01:30 | 15m | 2,325 | 581 |
| 3 | July 8, 2023 19:45 | July 9, 2023 04:30 | 8h 45m | 2,082 | 6,880 |
| 4 | March 19, 2023 12:00 | March 20, 2023 11:45 | 23h 45m | 1,900 | 25K |
| 5 | April 28, 2023 01:30 | April 29, 2023 14:00 | 1d 12h | 1,763 | 14K |
| 6 | July 13, 2023 17:15 | July 18, 2023 00:30 | 4d 7h | 1,637 | 33K |
| 7 | June 22, 2023 18:45 | June 27, 2023 18:15 | 4d 23h | 1,554 | 10K |
| 8 | September 6, 2023 20:45 | September 8, 2023 20:45 | 2d | 1,516 | 10K |
| 9 | August 3, 2023 12:15 | August 5, 2023 09:00 | 1d 20h | 1,510 | 9,314 |
| 10 | October 17, 2023 12:30 | October 17, 2023 22:30 | 10h | 1,471 | 3,565 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 96 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 Bedford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 1.33 | 2.3 hrs | 0.92 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county