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2025 Montgomery County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Montgomery County, VA went without power for an average of 38.9 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 127th 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 Montgomery 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 12, 2025 00:15 | February 19, 2025 02:30 | 7d 2h | 22,393 | 893K |
| 2 | January 6, 2025 08:30 | January 9, 2025 04:45 | 2d 20h | 6,722 | 131K |
| 3 | October 11, 2025 14:15 | October 12, 2025 02:15 | 12h | 3,594 | 13K |
| 4 | August 19, 2025 03:30 | August 19, 2025 16:30 | 13h | 3,202 | 4,721 |
| 5 | June 14, 2025 10:45 | June 14, 2025 16:00 | 5h 15m | 3,129 | 9,455 |
| 6 | January 13, 2025 14:15 | January 15, 2025 11:15 | 1d 21h | 1,816 | 10K |
| 7 | May 13, 2025 02:30 | May 17, 2025 23:00 | 4d 20h | 1,781 | 14K |
| 8 | January 9, 2025 21:15 | January 10, 2025 23:45 | 1d 2h | 1,717 | 1,219 |
| 9 | September 30, 2025 13:15 | September 30, 2025 23:30 | 10h 15m | 1,646 | 6,514 |
| 10 | August 21, 2025 20:15 | August 22, 2025 22:00 | 1d 1h | 1,601 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 85 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Montgomery 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 |
| City of Radford - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Virginia Tech Electric Service | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,573 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county