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2023 Shenandoah County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Shenandoah County, VA went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 966th 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 Shenandoah 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 | July 28, 2023 19:30 | July 30, 2023 22:45 | 2d 3h | 4,288 | 71K |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 19:30 | August 8, 2023 17:45 | 22h 15m | 3,397 | 9,362 |
| 3 | March 14, 2023 15:45 | March 14, 2023 23:30 | 7h 45m | 2,207 | 3,062 |
| 4 | March 29, 2023 08:00 | March 29, 2023 11:30 | 3h 30m | 2,028 | 1,156 |
| 5 | September 23, 2023 15:00 | September 23, 2023 16:30 | 1h 30m | 1,400 | 701 |
| 6 | April 28, 2023 23:30 | April 29, 2023 02:00 | 2h 30m | 1,374 | 418 |
| 7 | July 5, 2023 12:15 | July 6, 2023 12:00 | 23h 45m | 1,124 | 9,858 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 21:45 | July 26, 2023 20:45 | 23h | 1,089 | 3,934 |
| 9 | February 17, 2023 07:15 | February 17, 2023 14:30 | 7h 15m | 1,025 | 3,915 |
| 10 | December 27, 2023 04:30 | December 27, 2023 05:15 | 45m | 858 | 216 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 49 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 Shenandoah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 |
| 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 ÷ 18,066 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. Shenandoah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shenandoah 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/shenandoah-county