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2025 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 32.3 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 131 Virginia counties and 169th 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 Bland 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 | July 31, 2025 05:30 | July 31, 2025 08:00 | 2h 30m | 2,220 | 564 |
| 2 | February 12, 2025 05:30 | February 15, 2025 18:45 | 3d 13h | 1,730 | 32K |
| 3 | March 16, 2025 04:45 | March 17, 2025 02:30 | 21h 45m | 1,222 | 13K |
| 4 | December 29, 2025 22:15 | December 30, 2025 20:30 | 22h 15m | 1,144 | 3,517 |
| 5 | January 6, 2025 06:30 | January 7, 2025 23:15 | 1d 16h | 864 | 7,128 |
| 6 | March 27, 2025 18:45 | March 29, 2025 01:00 | 1d 6h | 781 | 16K |
| 7 | March 15, 2025 22:45 | March 16, 2025 03:00 | 4h 15m | 771 | 3,276 |
| 8 | July 21, 2025 20:45 | July 22, 2025 06:00 | 9h 15m | 762 | 5,508 |
| 9 | September 7, 2025 07:30 | September 7, 2025 15:15 | 7h 45m | 757 | 5,862 |
| 10 | May 16, 2025 14:45 | May 16, 2025 23:15 | 8h 30m | 727 | 2,312 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 31 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Bland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county