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2023 Patrick County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Patrick County, VA went without power for an average of 19.2 hours, a total of 208K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 430th 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 Patrick 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 | August 7, 2023 21:00 | August 9, 2023 21:30 | 2d | 3,953 | 39K |
| 2 | December 26, 2023 10:45 | December 27, 2023 01:00 | 14h 15m | 2,246 | 6,556 |
| 3 | December 3, 2023 00:15 | December 3, 2023 03:15 | 3h | 2,069 | 3,860 |
| 4 | July 16, 2023 00:15 | July 17, 2023 00:30 | 1d | 1,942 | 27K |
| 5 | April 1, 2023 16:30 | April 3, 2023 23:45 | 2d 7h | 1,550 | 20K |
| 6 | January 14, 2023 02:45 | January 15, 2023 22:00 | 1d 19h | 1,537 | 2,419 |
| 7 | October 7, 2023 05:30 | October 7, 2023 12:00 | 6h 30m | 1,503 | 1,150 |
| 8 | May 24, 2023 14:30 | May 24, 2023 20:45 | 6h 15m | 1,357 | 7,125 |
| 9 | May 28, 2023 21:30 | May 29, 2023 02:15 | 4h 45m | 1,068 | 719 |
| 10 | July 31, 2023 19:45 | August 1, 2023 05:15 | 9h 30m | 947 | 2,878 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 58 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Patrick 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 |
| City of Danville - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,828 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. Patrick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Patrick 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/patrick-county