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2025 Franklin County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Franklin County, VA went without power for an average of 71.2 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 47th 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 Franklin 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 20:00 | February 22, 2025 01:00 | 10d 5h | 26,423 | 1.5M |
| 2 | January 6, 2025 08:00 | January 11, 2025 23:15 | 5d 15h | 13,633 | 618K |
| 3 | May 30, 2025 12:00 | June 2, 2025 04:00 | 2d 16h | 2,531 | 16K |
| 4 | February 9, 2025 21:15 | February 10, 2025 07:00 | 9h 45m | 2,449 | 5,732 |
| 5 | August 8, 2025 12:15 | August 9, 2025 00:30 | 12h 15m | 2,214 | 2,290 |
| 6 | October 31, 2025 13:30 | November 1, 2025 04:00 | 14h 30m | 1,875 | 3,311 |
| 7 | May 8, 2025 11:45 | May 9, 2025 00:00 | 12h 15m | 1,865 | 1,895 |
| 8 | November 19, 2025 13:15 | November 19, 2025 19:45 | 6h 30m | 1,840 | 1,872 |
| 9 | June 15, 2025 17:15 | June 17, 2025 21:45 | 2d 4h | 1,665 | 8,022 |
| 10 | July 22, 2025 23:00 | July 23, 2025 11:45 | 12h 45m | 1,629 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 89 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Franklin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Franklin - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,464 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2021, 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county