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2024 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 92.5 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 101st 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 Tazewell 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 00:00 | October 8, 2024 19:00 | 11d 19h | 18,835 | 1.8M |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 20:30 | May 29, 2024 22:45 | 3d 2h | 2,432 | 39K |
| 3 | January 8, 2024 22:15 | January 11, 2024 00:00 | 2d 1h | 2,165 | 23K |
| 4 | December 29, 2024 08:45 | December 29, 2024 22:45 | 14h | 2,128 | 5,699 |
| 5 | January 12, 2024 13:00 | January 14, 2024 04:15 | 1d 15h | 2,101 | 13K |
| 6 | May 18, 2024 03:00 | May 18, 2024 12:30 | 9h 30m | 1,694 | 1,309 |
| 7 | May 22, 2024 09:45 | May 22, 2024 19:30 | 9h 45m | 1,241 | 11K |
| 8 | May 24, 2024 13:30 | May 24, 2024 18:45 | 5h 15m | 1,191 | 2,429 |
| 9 | May 30, 2024 21:30 | May 31, 2024 02:00 | 4h 30m | 984 | 2,216 |
| 10 | October 19, 2024 15:30 | October 19, 2024 16:15 | 45m | 892 | 225 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 54 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 Tazewell 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Richlands - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,376 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. Tazewell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tazewell 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/tazewell-county