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2023 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 29.4 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 244th 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 Wise 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 29, 2023 19:15 | July 31, 2023 13:45 | 1d 18h | 2,860 | 14K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 16:45 | April 3, 2023 23:15 | 2d 6h | 1,864 | 25K |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 11:30 | March 4, 2023 15:15 | 1d 3h | 1,256 | 10K |
| 4 | August 11, 2023 07:15 | August 11, 2023 19:45 | 12h 30m | 1,191 | 1,345 |
| 5 | March 25, 2023 13:00 | March 26, 2023 02:00 | 13h | 789 | 692 |
| 6 | August 6, 2023 15:15 | August 7, 2023 01:00 | 9h 45m | 659 | 5,125 |
| 7 | April 14, 2023 23:00 | April 15, 2023 02:00 | 3h | 568 | 615 |
| 8 | April 27, 2023 14:15 | April 27, 2023 16:00 | 1h 45m | 566 | 428 |
| 9 | December 29, 2023 13:45 | December 29, 2023 20:45 | 7h | 563 | 759 |
| 10 | December 18, 2023 03:00 | December 18, 2023 16:45 | 13h 45m | 561 | 1,596 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 48 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Wise 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2023 | 10.0 hrs | 1.42 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 4.66 | 3.5 hrs | 4.60 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,750 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. Wise County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wise 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/wise-county