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2023 Highland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Highland County, VA went without power for an average of 27.9 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 265th 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 Highland 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 | October 24, 2023 22:30 | October 25, 2023 01:30 | 3h | 1,733 | 2,121 |
| 2 | July 31, 2023 07:30 | July 31, 2023 14:45 | 7h 15m | 1,603 | 3,804 |
| 3 | February 12, 2023 23:00 | February 14, 2023 00:30 | 1d 1h | 726 | 6,580 |
| 4 | May 22, 2023 18:30 | May 23, 2023 00:00 | 5h 30m | 655 | 3,046 |
| 5 | August 7, 2023 18:45 | August 8, 2023 12:45 | 18h | 652 | 2,510 |
| 6 | October 25, 2023 14:00 | October 25, 2023 18:45 | 4h 45m | 547 | 1,430 |
| 7 | July 28, 2023 22:00 | July 29, 2023 18:15 | 20h 15m | 488 | 2,222 |
| 8 | June 19, 2023 15:45 | June 19, 2023 20:00 | 4h 15m | 468 | 1,718 |
| 9 | October 23, 2023 14:15 | October 23, 2023 16:15 | 2h | 462 | 440 |
| 10 | July 24, 2023 14:45 | July 24, 2023 16:45 | 2h | 448 | 210 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 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 Highland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
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 ÷ 1,392 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. Highland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highland 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/highland-county