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2025 Alleghany County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Alleghany County, VA went without power for an average of 23.9 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 268th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alleghany County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 19, 2025 16:15 | December 20, 2025 17:15 | 1d 1h | 1,931 | 8,356 |
| 2 | December 14, 2025 17:15 | December 15, 2025 16:30 | 23h 15m | 1,343 | 1,814 |
| 3 | February 16, 2025 00:00 | February 18, 2025 22:00 | 2d 22h | 1,322 | 12K |
| 4 | August 19, 2025 16:45 | August 19, 2025 21:15 | 4h 30m | 905 | 917 |
| 5 | December 24, 2025 03:15 | December 24, 2025 05:15 | 2h | 899 | 1,573 |
| 6 | September 5, 2025 21:30 | September 5, 2025 22:00 | 30m | 884 | 442 |
| 7 | August 7, 2025 12:45 | August 7, 2025 21:00 | 8h 15m | 788 | 778 |
| 8 | May 17, 2025 09:00 | May 18, 2025 07:45 | 22h 45m | 698 | 4,327 |
| 9 | July 12, 2025 23:30 | July 13, 2025 07:45 | 8h 15m | 676 | 2,236 |
| 10 | July 17, 2025 00:15 | July 22, 2025 15:00 | 5d 14h | 671 | 5,174 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 76 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Alleghany County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,740 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany County, VA annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/virginia/alleghany-county