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2023 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 18.1 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 464th 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 Giles 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 14, 2023 19:30 | July 15, 2023 23:15 | 1d 3h | 1,907 | 4,135 |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 19:30 | July 30, 2023 21:15 | 2d 1h | 1,800 | 20K |
| 3 | February 19, 2023 14:15 | February 19, 2023 19:00 | 4h 45m | 1,559 | 7,405 |
| 4 | April 30, 2023 03:00 | April 30, 2023 07:45 | 4h 45m | 1,130 | 5,367 |
| 5 | July 17, 2023 23:00 | July 18, 2023 23:15 | 1d | 917 | 8,394 |
| 6 | February 12, 2023 17:00 | February 14, 2023 22:00 | 2d 5h | 714 | 8,508 |
| 7 | December 3, 2023 05:15 | December 4, 2023 06:00 | 1d | 699 | 6,444 |
| 8 | August 28, 2023 01:30 | August 28, 2023 14:15 | 12h 45m | 560 | 1,440 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 18:00 | April 2, 2023 21:15 | 1d 3h | 514 | 1,687 |
| 10 | February 11, 2023 13:15 | February 11, 2023 16:00 | 2h 45m | 424 | 1,166 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 32 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Giles 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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county