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2024 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 39.8 hours, a total of 508K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 242nd 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 Buchanan 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 | September 27, 2024 03:45 | October 7, 2024 20:15 | 10d 16h | 4,770 | 299K |
| 2 | March 26, 2024 08:30 | March 26, 2024 17:45 | 9h 15m | 2,851 | 12K |
| 3 | February 28, 2024 12:45 | February 29, 2024 17:45 | 1d 5h | 2,744 | 26K |
| 4 | January 21, 2024 16:15 | January 21, 2024 23:15 | 7h | 1,784 | 6,736 |
| 5 | March 27, 2024 12:15 | March 27, 2024 21:15 | 9h | 1,450 | 992 |
| 6 | May 26, 2024 20:15 | May 29, 2024 20:30 | 3d | 1,417 | 24K |
| 7 | November 22, 2024 06:45 | November 23, 2024 15:00 | 1d 8h | 1,076 | 6,129 |
| 8 | January 12, 2024 15:45 | January 13, 2024 21:15 | 1d 5h | 1,046 | 6,215 |
| 9 | August 4, 2024 05:45 | August 4, 2024 17:45 | 12h | 868 | 1,699 |
| 10 | December 10, 2024 14:00 | December 12, 2024 02:45 | 1d 12h | 827 | 4,537 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 48 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county