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2025 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 28.1 hours, a total of 359K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 206th 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 Buchanan 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 15, 2025 13:45 | February 21, 2025 01:45 | 5d 12h | 3,386 | 151K |
| 2 | December 19, 2025 06:00 | December 21, 2025 02:00 | 1d 20h | 3,152 | 41K |
| 3 | October 5, 2025 09:45 | October 5, 2025 22:45 | 13h | 1,719 | 22K |
| 4 | March 4, 2025 21:45 | March 6, 2025 00:30 | 1d 2h | 1,445 | 4,443 |
| 5 | March 7, 2025 00:30 | March 7, 2025 00:45 | 15m | 1,426 | 357 |
| 6 | March 7, 2025 01:30 | March 7, 2025 02:00 | 30m | 1,426 | 358 |
| 7 | May 16, 2025 17:45 | May 18, 2025 22:45 | 2d 5h | 1,208 | 19K |
| 8 | February 11, 2025 12:00 | February 12, 2025 17:15 | 1d 5h | 882 | 5,922 |
| 9 | February 26, 2025 11:30 | February 26, 2025 21:15 | 9h 45m | 821 | 1,524 |
| 10 | March 12, 2025 00:45 | March 12, 2025 02:45 | 2h | 815 | 1,629 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 66 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county