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County annual report · FIPS 51193

2023 Westmoreland County, VA Power Outage Report

In 2023, customers in Westmoreland County, VA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1702nd of 2,977 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
3.9
8,013 customers
Customer-hours out
31K
Peak customers out
3,642
Outages ≥1,000 out
5
0 of 10,000+ · 430 total
Longest outage
1d 4h
began April 6, 2023
Rank in state
85th/130
1702nd of 2,977 US

Compared with VA, the US and 2022

Westmoreland County, VA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2023Westmoreland County 3.9 hours, Virginia average 4.6 hours, US average 7.1 hours, Westmoreland County, 2022 18.6 hoursWestmoreland CountyWestmoreland County3.9hVirginia averageVirginia average4.6hUS averageUS average7.1hWestmoreland County, 2022Westmoreland County,…18.6h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2023; last bar is this county in 2022.

Month by month

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Westmoreland County, VA customer-hours without power by month, 2023Jan 1,024, Feb 1,345, Mar 310, Apr 2,368, May 1,467, Jun 3,669, Jul 4,789, Aug 4,498, Sep 6,138, Oct 343, Nov 824, Dec 4,24102k4k6k8k1,024Jan1,345Feb310Mar2,368Apr1,467May3,669Jun4,789Jul4,498Aug6,138Sep343Oct824Nov4,241Dec
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Customer-hours; September was the worst month.

Westmoreland County year over year

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Westmoreland County, VA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 9.3h; 2016: 11.2h; 2017: 15.3h; 2018: 24.4h, coverage 96%; 2019: 5.6h, coverage 97%; 2020: 9.9h, coverage 97%; 2021: 4.3h, coverage 97%; 2022: 18.6h, coverage 97%; 2023: 3.9h; 2024: 10.4h; 2025: 8.4h01020300%50%100%9.3h201511.2h201615.3h201724.4h20185.6h20199.9h20204.3h202118.6h20223.9h202310.4h20248.4h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Westmoreland County, 2023

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1December 11, 2023 06:45December 11, 2023 22:4516h3,6421,778
2January 1, 2023 10:00January 1, 2023 17:157h 15m3,237834
3July 8, 2023 19:15July 9, 2023 08:0012h 45m2,4871,569
4June 7, 2023 19:30June 7, 2023 20:301h2,4771,268
5September 18, 2023 07:15September 18, 2023 10:453h 30m1,0313,004
6July 2, 2023 22:30July 2, 2023 23:1545m770386
7February 17, 2023 17:30February 17, 2023 21:003h 30m521831
8August 7, 2023 23:45August 8, 2023 11:0011h 15m3791,801
9September 23, 2023 02:15September 24, 2023 04:451d 2h3421,843
10April 6, 2023 23:00April 8, 2023 03:001d 4h3031,109

Outage episodes by size in 2023: 27 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 Westmoreland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc20232.1 hrs1.142.1 hrs1.14
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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 ÷ 8,013 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-county

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