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2023 Clarke County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Clarke County, VA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1592nd 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 Clarke 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 | August 18, 2023 08:30 | August 18, 2023 10:30 | 2h | 2,031 | 4,062 |
| 2 | July 21, 2023 20:30 | July 21, 2023 23:15 | 2h 45m | 669 | 1,673 |
| 3 | November 21, 2023 19:00 | November 21, 2023 23:00 | 4h | 539 | 999 |
| 4 | June 12, 2023 20:30 | June 13, 2023 00:00 | 3h 30m | 534 | 746 |
| 5 | December 16, 2023 11:45 | December 16, 2023 20:00 | 8h 15m | 511 | 1,305 |
| 6 | May 3, 2023 00:15 | May 3, 2023 02:00 | 1h 45m | 401 | 632 |
| 7 | July 28, 2023 21:00 | July 29, 2023 10:30 | 13h 30m | 399 | 1,832 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 17:30 | April 5, 2023 23:00 | 5h 30m | 382 | 2,059 |
| 9 | July 25, 2023 17:30 | July 25, 2023 22:00 | 4h 30m | 381 | 1,588 |
| 10 | April 11, 2023 05:15 | April 11, 2023 10:45 | 5h 30m | 343 | 924 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 27 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Clarke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.88 | 40 min | 0.57 |
| 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 ÷ 7,589 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. Clarke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clarke 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/clarke-county