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2025 Highland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Highland County, VA went without power for an average of 58.4 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 62nd 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 Highland 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 6, 2025 07:00 | February 24, 2025 22:45 | 18d 15h | 2,155 | 39K |
| 2 | October 5, 2025 21:45 | October 6, 2025 00:15 | 2h 30m | 863 | 1,644 |
| 3 | July 11, 2025 20:45 | July 12, 2025 02:30 | 5h 45m | 857 | 4,381 |
| 4 | June 30, 2025 08:45 | June 30, 2025 16:00 | 7h 15m | 823 | 3,860 |
| 5 | November 6, 2025 04:30 | November 6, 2025 13:15 | 8h 45m | 821 | 6,021 |
| 6 | September 11, 2025 18:00 | September 11, 2025 18:30 | 30m | 626 | 235 |
| 7 | May 13, 2025 09:00 | May 13, 2025 23:45 | 14h 45m | 359 | 3,079 |
| 8 | June 23, 2025 11:30 | June 23, 2025 20:45 | 9h 15m | 353 | 2,393 |
| 9 | March 5, 2025 14:15 | March 5, 2025 16:15 | 2h | 346 | 191 |
| 10 | April 26, 2025 01:45 | April 28, 2025 12:30 | 2d 10h | 321 | 2,213 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 33 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Highland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.95 | 3.8 hrs | 2.32 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
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 ÷ 1,392 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. Highland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highland 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/highland-county