County annual report · FIPS 51027
2023 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 746th 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 Buchanan 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 | May 16, 2023 18:00 | May 19, 2023 20:00 | 3d 2h | 2,879 | 41K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 15:45 | April 3, 2023 18:00 | 2d 2h | 1,057 | 8,351 |
| 3 | October 21, 2023 05:45 | October 21, 2023 13:45 | 8h | 938 | 3,983 |
| 4 | May 12, 2023 09:15 | May 12, 2023 14:00 | 4h 45m | 841 | 3,013 |
| 5 | May 11, 2023 02:15 | May 11, 2023 04:00 | 1h 45m | 840 | 884 |
| 6 | February 21, 2023 13:45 | February 22, 2023 07:15 | 17h 30m | 815 | 8,805 |
| 7 | May 9, 2023 11:45 | May 9, 2023 22:30 | 10h 45m | 810 | 5,476 |
| 8 | May 7, 2023 14:45 | May 7, 2023 22:00 | 7h 15m | 788 | 2,108 |
| 9 | May 13, 2023 12:00 | May 13, 2023 12:15 | 15m | 770 | 193 |
| 10 | May 13, 2023 16:30 | May 13, 2023 16:45 | 15m | 770 | 193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county