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2025 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 19.6 hours, a total of 109K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 361st 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 Giles 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 | May 16, 2025 05:15 | May 16, 2025 09:00 | 3h 45m | 2,622 | 7,861 |
| 2 | September 1, 2025 20:30 | September 1, 2025 22:00 | 1h 30m | 2,165 | 550 |
| 3 | July 20, 2025 01:00 | July 20, 2025 07:00 | 6h | 2,023 | 8,098 |
| 4 | February 12, 2025 17:15 | February 15, 2025 00:00 | 2d 6h | 1,790 | 16K |
| 5 | February 15, 2025 15:15 | February 19, 2025 22:30 | 4d 7h | 1,162 | 21K |
| 6 | May 26, 2025 23:45 | May 27, 2025 02:00 | 2h 15m | 1,147 | 1,699 |
| 7 | September 23, 2025 13:15 | September 23, 2025 16:00 | 2h 45m | 1,075 | 2,589 |
| 8 | March 16, 2025 04:45 | March 16, 2025 14:30 | 9h 45m | 1,013 | 2,243 |
| 9 | December 19, 2025 08:00 | December 20, 2025 18:15 | 1d 10h | 741 | 2,145 |
| 10 | May 17, 2025 08:30 | May 17, 2025 22:30 | 14h | 630 | 3,773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 44 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Giles 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 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county