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2023 Dickenson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dickenson County, VA went without power for an average of 22.2 hours, a total of 190K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 354th 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 Dickenson 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 19:00 | May 22, 2023 00:30 | 5d 5h | 3,403 | 90K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 15:00 | April 4, 2023 01:00 | 2d 10h | 1,023 | 17K |
| 3 | December 3, 2023 17:00 | December 4, 2023 02:00 | 9h | 611 | 430 |
| 4 | March 3, 2023 16:45 | March 5, 2023 18:00 | 2d 1h | 569 | 13K |
| 5 | August 12, 2023 12:45 | August 12, 2023 19:15 | 6h 30m | 429 | 2,536 |
| 6 | July 18, 2023 19:30 | July 20, 2023 02:00 | 1d 6h | 397 | 2,729 |
| 7 | March 14, 2023 10:45 | March 15, 2023 21:00 | 1d 10h | 388 | 1,293 |
| 8 | May 2, 2023 08:00 | May 3, 2023 08:45 | 1d | 388 | 1,937 |
| 9 | June 20, 2023 18:45 | June 21, 2023 03:00 | 8h 15m | 382 | 2,180 |
| 10 | September 25, 2023 12:15 | September 25, 2023 15:45 | 3h 30m | 344 | 1,204 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 41 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 Dickenson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2023 | 10.0 hrs | 1.42 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
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 ÷ 8,563 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. Dickenson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickenson 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/dickenson-county