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2024 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 117.2 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 87th 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 Russell 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 24, 2024 19:15 | October 8, 2024 19:00 | 13d 23h | 15,236 | 1.6M |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 19:45 | May 30, 2024 00:15 | 3d 4h | 3,127 | 45K |
| 3 | January 2, 2024 13:45 | January 2, 2024 17:00 | 3h 15m | 2,016 | 4,714 |
| 4 | December 3, 2024 20:45 | December 4, 2024 18:00 | 21h 15m | 1,290 | 7,966 |
| 5 | June 16, 2024 14:45 | June 16, 2024 22:15 | 7h 30m | 1,278 | 349 |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 12:15 | January 14, 2024 18:00 | 2d 5h | 1,254 | 15K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 04:45 | January 10, 2024 22:45 | 1d 18h | 1,150 | 6,099 |
| 8 | November 21, 2024 22:00 | November 22, 2024 21:15 | 23h 15m | 1,044 | 5,778 |
| 9 | August 18, 2024 00:00 | August 18, 2024 09:00 | 9h | 966 | 1,854 |
| 10 | March 22, 2024 22:00 | March 23, 2024 07:45 | 9h 45m | 911 | 2,643 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 68 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2024 | 21.9 hrs | 1.97 | 1.9 hrs | 1.03 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2024 | 29.5 hrs | 2.79 | 7.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county