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2023 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1157th 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 Russell 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 16, 2023 22:00 | May 17, 2023 22:00 | 1d | 2,261 | 5,228 |
| 2 | December 26, 2023 21:00 | December 27, 2023 21:45 | 1d | 2,154 | 2,730 |
| 3 | January 3, 2023 21:30 | January 4, 2023 23:00 | 1d 1h | 1,295 | 2,977 |
| 4 | July 28, 2023 20:00 | August 1, 2023 03:15 | 3d 7h | 911 | 12K |
| 5 | March 3, 2023 16:15 | March 5, 2023 13:45 | 1d 21h | 901 | 5,069 |
| 6 | June 20, 2023 19:00 | June 21, 2023 16:00 | 21h | 871 | 1,832 |
| 7 | November 3, 2023 15:15 | November 4, 2023 14:00 | 22h 45m | 841 | 1,854 |
| 8 | January 17, 2023 09:30 | January 17, 2023 14:30 | 5h | 761 | 2,097 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 15:00 | April 3, 2023 01:00 | 1d 10h | 744 | 10K |
| 10 | July 14, 2023 16:30 | July 15, 2023 02:45 | 10h 15m | 450 | 1,068 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 53 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Russell 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 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county