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2023 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 13.7 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 633rd 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 Botetourt 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 | March 16, 2023 07:45 | March 16, 2023 21:00 | 13h 15m | 3,328 | 25K |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 20:45 | July 31, 2023 01:00 | 2d 4h | 2,692 | 26K |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 07:45 | April 4, 2023 00:00 | 2d 16h | 1,584 | 12K |
| 4 | August 27, 2023 03:00 | August 27, 2023 04:15 | 1h 15m | 1,524 | 1,801 |
| 5 | September 3, 2023 21:45 | September 3, 2023 22:30 | 45m | 1,522 | 956 |
| 6 | August 6, 2023 12:15 | August 8, 2023 02:45 | 1d 14h | 1,272 | 5,745 |
| 7 | December 18, 2023 06:30 | December 19, 2023 06:00 | 23h 30m | 1,029 | 5,083 |
| 8 | September 19, 2023 13:30 | September 19, 2023 15:15 | 1h 45m | 845 | 882 |
| 9 | November 6, 2023 13:45 | November 6, 2023 19:45 | 6h | 821 | 3,079 |
| 10 | April 7, 2023 09:30 | April 7, 2023 14:30 | 5h | 771 | 3,592 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 52 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county