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2025 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 747th 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 Russell 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 19:30 | May 18, 2025 16:45 | 1d 21h | 5,804 | 43K |
| 2 | December 12, 2025 13:15 | December 12, 2025 20:00 | 6h 45m | 1,986 | 574 |
| 3 | November 12, 2025 14:15 | November 12, 2025 23:45 | 9h 30m | 1,825 | 1,017 |
| 4 | July 17, 2025 20:45 | July 19, 2025 22:30 | 2d 1h | 1,473 | 15K |
| 5 | October 10, 2025 08:00 | October 10, 2025 13:45 | 5h 45m | 1,225 | 3,565 |
| 6 | February 15, 2025 21:30 | February 19, 2025 00:00 | 3d 2h | 1,210 | 19K |
| 7 | March 27, 2025 08:45 | March 27, 2025 19:00 | 10h 15m | 955 | 2,895 |
| 8 | May 30, 2025 14:00 | May 31, 2025 01:30 | 11h 30m | 793 | 2,171 |
| 9 | March 16, 2025 02:45 | March 16, 2025 23:45 | 21h | 740 | 2,059 |
| 10 | February 11, 2025 10:30 | February 12, 2025 01:00 | 14h 30m | 738 | 292 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 49 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2024 | 21.9 hrs | 1.97 | 1.9 hrs | 1.03 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2024 | 29.5 hrs | 2.79 | 7.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county