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2023 Spotsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Spotsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 173K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 104th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 2020th 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 Spotsylvania 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 | September 9, 2023 18:15 | September 11, 2023 00:00 | 1d 5h | 9,432 | 13K |
| 2 | August 22, 2023 12:00 | August 22, 2023 21:00 | 9h | 5,510 | 9,818 |
| 3 | January 14, 2023 22:45 | January 15, 2023 10:15 | 11h 30m | 5,488 | 8,781 |
| 4 | February 2, 2023 05:00 | February 2, 2023 11:45 | 6h 45m | 4,965 | 2,356 |
| 5 | June 7, 2023 18:00 | June 7, 2023 21:30 | 3h 30m | 4,726 | 6,432 |
| 6 | July 16, 2023 06:30 | July 16, 2023 07:15 | 45m | 4,280 | 3,210 |
| 7 | January 26, 2023 02:00 | January 26, 2023 08:15 | 6h 15m | 4,276 | 1,922 |
| 8 | April 6, 2023 21:30 | April 7, 2023 06:30 | 9h | 3,931 | 10K |
| 9 | September 24, 2023 03:30 | September 24, 2023 20:30 | 17h | 3,928 | 3,900 |
| 10 | June 23, 2023 04:45 | June 23, 2023 05:30 | 45m | 3,914 | 1,957 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 91 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Spotsylvania 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 |
| 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 ÷ 62,155 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. Spotsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spotsylvania 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/spotsylvania-county