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2023 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 126K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1308th 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 Tazewell 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 09:45 | May 18, 2023 02:15 | 1d 16h | 3,107 | 8,876 |
| 2 | May 7, 2023 00:30 | May 7, 2023 18:45 | 18h 15m | 2,723 | 20K |
| 3 | November 12, 2023 14:00 | November 12, 2023 16:15 | 2h 15m | 2,091 | 2,905 |
| 4 | October 18, 2023 12:30 | October 18, 2023 18:45 | 6h 15m | 1,565 | 1,464 |
| 5 | October 18, 2023 10:00 | October 18, 2023 11:00 | 1h | 1,530 | 384 |
| 6 | January 25, 2023 15:30 | January 26, 2023 17:30 | 1d 2h | 1,173 | 4,811 |
| 7 | May 28, 2023 21:30 | May 28, 2023 23:30 | 2h | 910 | 1,806 |
| 8 | January 1, 2023 16:45 | January 1, 2023 20:45 | 4h | 905 | 735 |
| 9 | July 25, 2023 13:00 | July 25, 2023 14:00 | 1h | 900 | 227 |
| 10 | July 7, 2023 18:15 | July 8, 2023 07:00 | 12h 45m | 716 | 1,702 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 50 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Tazewell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Richlands - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,376 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. Tazewell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tazewell 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/tazewell-county