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2025 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 18.3 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 400th 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 Botetourt 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 | February 11, 2025 21:30 | February 19, 2025 02:45 | 7d 5h | 3,607 | 52K |
| 2 | January 6, 2025 09:15 | January 9, 2025 01:00 | 2d 15h | 2,012 | 11K |
| 3 | July 27, 2025 20:15 | July 30, 2025 02:00 | 2d 5h | 1,795 | 9,063 |
| 4 | July 17, 2025 20:00 | July 18, 2025 02:45 | 6h 45m | 1,789 | 2,761 |
| 5 | October 19, 2025 16:45 | October 20, 2025 22:15 | 1d 5h | 1,725 | 10K |
| 6 | April 20, 2025 18:30 | April 20, 2025 22:00 | 3h 30m | 1,706 | 461 |
| 7 | June 9, 2025 00:30 | June 9, 2025 19:30 | 19h | 1,703 | 521 |
| 8 | January 28, 2025 18:00 | January 28, 2025 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,518 | 1,898 |
| 9 | May 17, 2025 11:30 | May 18, 2025 05:00 | 17h 30m | 1,393 | 2,608 |
| 10 | March 5, 2025 11:30 | March 5, 2025 23:15 | 11h 45m | 1,360 | 5,652 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 69 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county