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2023 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 16.3 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 528th 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 Bland 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 15, 2023 20:00 | July 16, 2023 10:00 | 14h | 985 | 11K |
| 2 | April 28, 2023 07:45 | April 28, 2023 13:15 | 5h 30m | 807 | 4,434 |
| 3 | May 17, 2023 12:00 | May 17, 2023 21:30 | 9h 30m | 805 | 1,066 |
| 4 | March 4, 2023 02:45 | April 26, 2023 14:15 | 53d 11h | 773 | 17K |
| 5 | July 28, 2023 20:45 | July 30, 2023 19:00 | 1d 22h | 527 | 2,683 |
| 6 | January 23, 2023 15:00 | January 23, 2023 22:30 | 7h 30m | 195 | 1,231 |
| 7 | July 17, 2023 22:45 | July 19, 2023 03:30 | 1d 4h | 193 | 3,346 |
| 8 | May 19, 2023 00:30 | May 19, 2023 18:00 | 17h 30m | 192 | 1,668 |
| 9 | January 26, 2023 19:45 | January 26, 2023 22:30 | 2h 45m | 179 | 492 |
| 10 | May 29, 2023 13:30 | May 30, 2023 17:45 | 1d 4h | 172 | 3,539 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county