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2023 Scott County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Scott County, VA went without power for an average of 15.7 hours, a total of 188K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 553rd 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 Scott 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 | April 1, 2023 17:15 | April 5, 2023 03:30 | 3d 10h | 3,094 | 31K |
| 2 | May 16, 2023 13:00 | May 18, 2023 20:15 | 2d 7h | 2,179 | 27K |
| 3 | July 28, 2023 22:45 | August 1, 2023 00:15 | 3d 1h | 2,048 | 22K |
| 4 | July 6, 2023 22:15 | July 7, 2023 01:30 | 3h 15m | 1,688 | 4,000 |
| 5 | September 10, 2023 23:30 | September 11, 2023 13:45 | 14h 15m | 1,118 | 4,229 |
| 6 | January 31, 2023 13:00 | January 31, 2023 22:15 | 9h 15m | 923 | 1,876 |
| 7 | March 3, 2023 15:00 | March 6, 2023 21:15 | 3d 6h | 890 | 24K |
| 8 | July 1, 2023 16:45 | July 3, 2023 03:00 | 1d 10h | 722 | 7,010 |
| 9 | June 10, 2023 18:30 | June 11, 2023 04:00 | 9h 30m | 700 | 3,797 |
| 10 | September 27, 2023 22:45 | September 28, 2023 00:15 | 1h 30m | 696 | 698 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 48 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Scott 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 4.66 | 3.5 hrs | 4.60 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2023 | 43 min | 0.46 | 43 min | 0.46 |
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 ÷ 11,959 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county