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2023 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 244K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1647th 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 Lynchburg city, 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 13, 2023 19:00 | July 15, 2023 02:30 | 1d 7h | 4,611 | 69K |
| 2 | January 4, 2023 15:30 | January 4, 2023 19:30 | 4h | 3,860 | 9,313 |
| 3 | December 18, 2023 02:45 | December 19, 2023 03:00 | 1d | 2,962 | 8,580 |
| 4 | June 6, 2023 00:45 | June 6, 2023 20:00 | 19h 15m | 2,455 | 7,960 |
| 5 | July 3, 2023 01:30 | July 4, 2023 14:45 | 1d 13h | 2,139 | 28K |
| 6 | July 15, 2023 21:15 | July 16, 2023 22:45 | 1d 1h | 2,098 | 3,268 |
| 7 | July 28, 2023 22:45 | July 29, 2023 21:15 | 22h 30m | 1,857 | 16K |
| 8 | July 24, 2023 02:45 | July 24, 2023 19:15 | 16h 30m | 1,558 | 5,813 |
| 9 | January 13, 2023 06:00 | January 13, 2023 20:15 | 14h 15m | 1,473 | 2,127 |
| 10 | July 13, 2023 11:00 | July 13, 2023 16:00 | 5h | 1,454 | 1,040 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 79 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Lynchburg city 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 |
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 ÷ 59,258 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. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, 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/lynchburg-city