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2023 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 917th 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 Washington 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 | March 10, 2023 15:30 | March 15, 2023 22:45 | 5d 7h | 6,619 | 20K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 10:45 | April 5, 2023 01:00 | 3d 14h | 3,338 | 54K |
| 3 | January 12, 2023 14:15 | January 14, 2023 00:30 | 1d 10h | 2,578 | 9,244 |
| 4 | September 4, 2023 23:45 | September 5, 2023 16:00 | 16h 15m | 2,244 | 5,265 |
| 5 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 20, 2023 20:15 | 1d 6h | 2,221 | 23K |
| 6 | March 3, 2023 21:15 | March 5, 2023 20:30 | 1d 23h | 2,176 | 15K |
| 7 | April 7, 2023 11:00 | April 8, 2023 02:00 | 15h | 1,518 | 3,661 |
| 8 | August 12, 2023 13:45 | August 13, 2023 03:45 | 14h | 1,416 | 2,481 |
| 9 | January 23, 2023 14:00 | January 25, 2023 00:15 | 1d 10h | 1,366 | 922 |
| 10 | July 28, 2023 19:00 | July 31, 2023 16:15 | 2d 21h | 1,307 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 71 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Washington 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 |
| 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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county