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2023 Lee County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, VA went without power for an average of 18.7 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 444th 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 Lee 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 29, 2023 20:30 | July 31, 2023 19:30 | 1d 23h | 5,793 | 19K |
| 2 | May 16, 2023 21:15 | May 19, 2023 00:00 | 2d 2h | 5,181 | 62K |
| 3 | November 10, 2023 12:15 | November 10, 2023 19:00 | 6h 45m | 2,265 | 3,704 |
| 4 | October 27, 2023 10:15 | October 27, 2023 13:15 | 3h | 2,170 | 723 |
| 5 | July 26, 2023 02:30 | July 26, 2023 03:45 | 1h 15m | 2,030 | 1,882 |
| 6 | September 9, 2023 22:00 | September 10, 2023 06:15 | 8h 15m | 1,817 | 1,523 |
| 7 | August 25, 2023 16:15 | August 25, 2023 16:30 | 15m | 1,772 | 443 |
| 8 | November 21, 2023 19:45 | November 22, 2023 00:30 | 4h 45m | 1,413 | 857 |
| 9 | April 19, 2023 03:45 | April 19, 2023 06:15 | 2h 30m | 1,402 | 2,742 |
| 10 | May 23, 2023 08:00 | May 23, 2023 10:15 | 2h 15m | 1,166 | 1,750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 56 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lee 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 4.66 | 3.5 hrs | 4.60 |
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 ÷ 7,474 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. Lee County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county