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2024 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 78.6 hours, a total of 438K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 121st 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 Giles 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 | May 26, 2024 13:15 | June 1, 2024 00:15 | 5d 11h | 7,343 | 175K |
| 2 | September 26, 2024 04:00 | October 4, 2024 17:15 | 8d 13h | 4,054 | 185K |
| 3 | May 12, 2024 16:15 | May 12, 2024 19:30 | 3h 15m | 2,504 | 5,077 |
| 4 | August 2, 2024 16:00 | August 2, 2024 19:45 | 3h 45m | 1,621 | 1,678 |
| 5 | September 24, 2024 20:30 | September 25, 2024 20:00 | 23h 30m | 1,387 | 5,942 |
| 6 | August 4, 2024 19:15 | August 4, 2024 23:45 | 4h 30m | 1,030 | 3,038 |
| 7 | January 22, 2024 10:15 | January 22, 2024 23:15 | 13h | 964 | 556 |
| 8 | October 5, 2024 06:00 | October 5, 2024 17:30 | 11h 30m | 632 | 2,083 |
| 9 | November 7, 2024 18:00 | November 7, 2024 21:00 | 3h | 599 | 904 |
| 10 | May 16, 2024 03:30 | May 16, 2024 18:15 | 14h 45m | 556 | 3,375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 43 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Giles 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 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county