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2025 Smyth County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Smyth County, VA went without power for an average of 10.9 hours, a total of 203K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 131 Virginia counties and 732nd 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 Smyth 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 17, 2025 06:45 | May 20, 2025 00:45 | 2d 18h | 5,821 | 61K |
| 2 | October 15, 2025 11:30 | October 15, 2025 14:00 | 2h 30m | 1,613 | 1,230 |
| 3 | May 3, 2025 17:15 | May 3, 2025 23:45 | 6h 30m | 1,555 | 1,798 |
| 4 | May 26, 2025 11:45 | May 27, 2025 06:15 | 18h 30m | 1,551 | 2,515 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 18:45 | March 17, 2025 20:00 | 2d 1h | 1,448 | 17K |
| 6 | November 2, 2025 13:30 | November 2, 2025 17:15 | 3h 45m | 1,257 | 2,912 |
| 7 | February 11, 2025 18:45 | February 18, 2025 18:15 | 6d 23h | 1,144 | 25K |
| 8 | February 21, 2025 12:30 | February 21, 2025 23:45 | 11h 15m | 1,078 | 1,353 |
| 9 | April 15, 2025 12:30 | April 16, 2025 01:45 | 13h 15m | 1,038 | 3,042 |
| 10 | June 7, 2025 15:45 | June 8, 2025 02:45 | 11h | 992 | 2,665 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 66 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Smyth 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 |
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 ÷ 18,737 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. Smyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smyth 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/smyth-county