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2023 Wythe County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wythe County, VA went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1379th 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 Wythe 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 4, 2023 03:00 | March 4, 2023 22:45 | 19h 45m | 2,704 | 11K |
| 2 | January 12, 2023 13:30 | January 13, 2023 18:15 | 1d 4h | 2,002 | 3,242 |
| 3 | March 30, 2023 12:15 | March 30, 2023 19:15 | 7h | 2,001 | 9,484 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 18:00 | April 3, 2023 08:15 | 1d 14h | 1,714 | 13K |
| 5 | September 12, 2023 13:45 | September 12, 2023 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,601 | 1,607 |
| 6 | June 28, 2023 16:45 | June 28, 2023 21:00 | 4h 15m | 1,161 | 306 |
| 7 | June 1, 2023 15:15 | June 2, 2023 18:15 | 1d 3h | 1,009 | 658 |
| 8 | June 26, 2023 13:45 | June 26, 2023 22:30 | 8h 45m | 1,006 | 569 |
| 9 | May 28, 2023 21:30 | May 30, 2023 21:00 | 1d 23h | 995 | 3,229 |
| 10 | March 3, 2023 22:15 | March 3, 2023 23:45 | 1h 30m | 782 | 979 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 43 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Wythe 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 |
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 ÷ 17,849 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. Wythe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wythe 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/wythe-county