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2023 Rockbridge County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rockbridge County, VA went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 970th 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 Rockbridge 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 | May 1, 2023 16:45 | May 1, 2023 19:00 | 2h 15m | 2,140 | 1,245 |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 21:15 | July 31, 2023 20:45 | 2d 23h | 1,267 | 16K |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 18:15 | April 3, 2023 15:15 | 1d 21h | 965 | 4,205 |
| 4 | July 1, 2023 15:00 | July 1, 2023 23:30 | 8h 30m | 798 | 792 |
| 5 | October 12, 2023 11:00 | October 12, 2023 16:45 | 5h 45m | 770 | 425 |
| 6 | February 21, 2023 16:15 | February 22, 2023 01:45 | 9h 30m | 753 | 2,058 |
| 7 | July 17, 2023 18:00 | July 17, 2023 23:15 | 5h 15m | 621 | 315 |
| 8 | July 19, 2023 13:30 | July 19, 2023 17:15 | 3h 45m | 620 | 742 |
| 9 | April 15, 2023 22:30 | April 16, 2023 08:45 | 10h 15m | 585 | 1,479 |
| 10 | November 29, 2023 19:00 | November 29, 2023 23:00 | 4h | 580 | 440 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 68 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 Rockbridge 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,617 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. Rockbridge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockbridge 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/rockbridge-county