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2023 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 1,505 customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 126th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2934th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin 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 | September 18, 2023 12:30 | September 18, 2023 17:00 | 4h 30m | 155 | 207 |
| 2 | September 8, 2023 20:15 | September 10, 2023 12:15 | 1d 16h | 139 | 744 |
| 3 | September 13, 2023 12:30 | September 13, 2023 18:15 | 5h 45m | 38 | 92 |
| 4 | September 15, 2023 13:15 | September 16, 2023 00:00 | 10h 45m | 22 | 58 |
| 5 | September 21, 2023 11:30 | September 21, 2023 16:00 | 4h 30m | 12 | 49 |
| 6 | September 17, 2023 12:30 | September 17, 2023 14:30 | 2h | 11 | 15 |
| 7 | September 12, 2023 11:45 | September 12, 2023 18:00 | 6h 15m | 10 | 37 |
| 8 | September 16, 2023 06:45 | September 16, 2023 14:45 | 8h | 9 | 57 |
| 9 | September 16, 2023 20:15 | September 16, 2023 20:45 | 30m | 8 | 4 |
| 10 | September 13, 2023 01:15 | September 13, 2023 02:15 | 1h | 7 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Franklin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county