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2024 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 33.6 hours, a total of 357K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 298th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Botetourt County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 20, 2024 22:45 | November 22, 2024 06:00 | 1d 7h | 3,805 | 20K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 22:30 | May 29, 2024 23:45 | 3d 1h | 3,485 | 31K |
| 3 | September 26, 2024 02:00 | October 3, 2024 20:00 | 7d 18h | 3,423 | 176K |
| 4 | January 13, 2024 12:45 | January 13, 2024 22:15 | 9h 30m | 3,312 | 9,308 |
| 5 | February 13, 2024 06:45 | February 13, 2024 23:15 | 16h 30m | 3,071 | 7,283 |
| 6 | April 18, 2024 19:00 | April 18, 2024 21:00 | 2h | 1,982 | 1,621 |
| 7 | March 29, 2024 15:45 | April 2, 2024 00:15 | 3d 8h | 1,948 | 4,335 |
| 8 | March 9, 2024 15:15 | March 9, 2024 18:00 | 2h 45m | 1,728 | 2,596 |
| 9 | July 5, 2024 20:30 | July 6, 2024 17:30 | 21h | 1,448 | 3,146 |
| 10 | July 4, 2024 17:00 | July 5, 2024 18:45 | 1d 1h | 1,392 | 3,846 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 55 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Botetourt County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 29.5 hrs | 2.79 | 7.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt County, VA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/virginia/botetourt-county