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2024 Smyth County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Smyth County, VA went without power for an average of 78.4 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 122nd 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 Smyth 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 25, 2024 22:15 | October 8, 2024 00:30 | 12d 2h | 12,160 | 1.2M |
| 2 | January 12, 2024 08:45 | January 15, 2024 16:45 | 3d 8h | 2,926 | 79K |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 02:15 | January 11, 2024 20:45 | 2d 18h | 2,511 | 16K |
| 4 | June 10, 2024 12:45 | June 10, 2024 23:00 | 10h 15m | 2,360 | 5,352 |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 20:30 | May 30, 2024 01:45 | 3d 5h | 2,119 | 22K |
| 6 | December 16, 2024 02:15 | December 16, 2024 08:00 | 5h 45m | 1,541 | 4,288 |
| 7 | October 26, 2024 23:15 | October 27, 2024 04:15 | 5h | 1,529 | 2,816 |
| 8 | November 17, 2024 07:45 | November 17, 2024 14:30 | 6h 45m | 1,294 | 3,547 |
| 9 | May 15, 2024 00:45 | May 16, 2024 18:30 | 1d 17h | 1,109 | 4,915 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 13:00 | August 6, 2024 20:30 | 7h 30m | 1,103 | 4,437 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 71 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Smyth 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 |
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 ÷ 18,737 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. Smyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smyth 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/smyth-county