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2023 Craig County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Craig County, VA went without power for an average of 19.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 412th 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 Craig 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 3, 2023 22:30 | March 4, 2023 22:45 | 1d | 790 | 4,683 |
| 2 | February 17, 2023 23:00 | February 18, 2023 04:00 | 5h | 584 | 1,564 |
| 3 | March 2, 2023 09:45 | March 2, 2023 12:30 | 2h 45m | 581 | 1,426 |
| 4 | February 21, 2023 08:15 | February 21, 2023 09:30 | 1h 15m | 419 | 427 |
| 5 | July 28, 2023 15:45 | July 30, 2023 18:00 | 2d 2h | 368 | 2,186 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 18:30 | April 2, 2023 19:00 | 1d | 345 | 1,861 |
| 7 | July 13, 2023 14:30 | July 13, 2023 15:30 | 1h | 306 | 181 |
| 8 | September 18, 2023 11:45 | September 18, 2023 19:00 | 7h 15m | 243 | 1,089 |
| 9 | September 9, 2023 21:45 | September 10, 2023 05:30 | 7h 45m | 242 | 1,654 |
| 10 | January 19, 2023 22:45 | January 19, 2023 23:15 | 30m | 227 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 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 Craig 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 |
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 ÷ 1,256 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. Craig County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Craig 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/craig-county