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2023 Salem city, VA Power Outage Report

In 2023, customers in Salem city, VA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 484 customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 127th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2937th of 2,977 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
0.0
13,871 customers
Customer-hours out
484
Peak customers out
4
Outages ≥1,000 out
0
0 of 10,000+ · 2 total
Longest outage
4d 22h
began May 8, 2023
Rank in state
127th/130
2937th of 2,977 US

Compared with VA, the US and 2021

Salem city, VA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2023Salem city 0.0 hours, Virginia average 4.6 hours, US average 7.1 hours, Salem city, 2021 0.0 hoursSalem citySalem city0.0hVirginia averageVirginia average4.6hUS averageUS average7.1hSalem city, 2021Salem city, 20210.0h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2023; last bar is this county in 2021.

Month by month

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Salem city, VA customer-hours without power by month, 2023Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 475, Jun 0, Jul 9, Aug 0, Sep 0, Oct 0, Nov 0, Dec 002004006000Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr475May0Jun9Jul0Aug0Sep0Oct0Nov0Dec
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Customer-hours; May was the worst month.

Salem city year over year

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Salem city, VA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 0.0h; 2016: 0.0h; 2017: 0.0h; 2018: 0.0h, coverage 96%; 2019: 0.0h, coverage 97%; 2020: 0.0h, coverage 97%; 2021: 0.0h, coverage 97%; 2022: no data; 2023: 0.0h; 2024: 0.0h; 2025: 0.0h000000%50%100%0.0h20150.0h20160.0h20170.0h20180.0h20190.0h20200.0h2021n/a20220.0h20230.0h20240.0h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Salem city, 2023

The 2 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1May 8, 2023 14:45May 13, 2023 13:304d 22h4475
2July 23, 2023 22:00July 24, 2023 00:152h 15m49

Outage episodes by size in 2023: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Salem city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
City of Salem - (VA)202323 min0.2523 min0.25

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 ÷ 13,871 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. Salem city has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-city

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