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2023 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1897th 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 Orange 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 8, 2023 08:15 | October 8, 2023 08:30 | 15m | 1,371 | 343 |
| 2 | April 28, 2023 08:30 | April 28, 2023 13:00 | 4h 30m | 1,314 | 4,287 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 20:00 | April 3, 2023 01:30 | 1d 5h | 1,299 | 11K |
| 4 | February 23, 2023 21:15 | February 24, 2023 00:00 | 2h 45m | 1,272 | 2,387 |
| 5 | April 30, 2023 01:30 | April 30, 2023 01:45 | 15m | 1,262 | 316 |
| 6 | October 8, 2023 00:30 | October 8, 2023 00:45 | 15m | 1,161 | 290 |
| 7 | October 15, 2023 12:30 | October 15, 2023 14:30 | 2h | 987 | 1,777 |
| 8 | April 22, 2023 16:30 | April 22, 2023 23:15 | 6h 45m | 886 | 704 |
| 9 | December 5, 2023 15:45 | December 5, 2023 21:15 | 5h 30m | 821 | 235 |
| 10 | April 30, 2023 06:30 | April 30, 2023 08:00 | 1h 30m | 666 | 180 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 57 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2023 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 | 5.6 hrs | 2.82 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,484 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county