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2023 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 18.4 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 453rd 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 Buckingham 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 7, 2023 22:15 | July 9, 2023 03:30 | 1d 5h | 5,102 | 27K |
| 2 | June 16, 2023 16:15 | June 18, 2023 03:45 | 1d 11h | 3,121 | 29K |
| 3 | September 23, 2023 08:15 | September 24, 2023 08:00 | 23h 45m | 2,360 | 8,836 |
| 4 | February 12, 2023 21:00 | February 13, 2023 03:15 | 6h 15m | 1,549 | 596 |
| 5 | July 3, 2023 04:15 | July 3, 2023 22:30 | 18h 15m | 1,407 | 4,976 |
| 6 | July 14, 2023 00:00 | July 14, 2023 03:30 | 3h 30m | 780 | 1,562 |
| 7 | July 7, 2023 13:45 | July 7, 2023 19:45 | 6h | 669 | 620 |
| 8 | April 7, 2023 17:15 | April 7, 2023 19:00 | 1h 45m | 483 | 612 |
| 9 | June 21, 2023 13:45 | June 21, 2023 21:30 | 7h 45m | 371 | 759 |
| 10 | July 4, 2023 21:15 | July 5, 2023 01:00 | 3h 45m | 360 | 1,036 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 36 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Buckingham 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2023 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county