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2024 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 190.2 hours, a total of 713K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 42nd 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 Wise 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 02:00 | October 6, 2024 01:15 | 10d 23h | 14,703 | 602K |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 01:45 | January 10, 2024 05:45 | 1d 4h | 2,214 | 3,633 |
| 3 | December 29, 2024 19:45 | December 30, 2024 04:45 | 9h | 2,171 | 2,232 |
| 4 | February 28, 2024 16:15 | February 29, 2024 09:15 | 17h | 2,110 | 4,687 |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 17:30 | May 28, 2024 13:15 | 1d 19h | 2,081 | 11K |
| 6 | July 4, 2024 17:30 | July 5, 2024 01:45 | 8h 15m | 1,076 | 3,300 |
| 7 | July 27, 2024 03:30 | July 27, 2024 09:45 | 6h 15m | 1,075 | 1,458 |
| 8 | June 4, 2024 22:15 | June 5, 2024 02:15 | 4h | 785 | 888 |
| 9 | July 30, 2024 14:45 | July 30, 2024 17:15 | 2h 30m | 754 | 198 |
| 10 | November 20, 2024 18:45 | November 21, 2024 22:45 | 1d 4h | 753 | 4,643 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 72 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Wise 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2024 | 8.4 hrs | 4.97 | 1.7 hrs | 3.38 |
| 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 ÷ 3,750 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. Wise County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wise 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/wise-county