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2025 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 685th 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 Tazewell 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 | January 5, 2025 23:45 | January 12, 2025 00:45 | 6d 1h | 2,603 | 136K |
| 2 | March 4, 2025 22:45 | March 6, 2025 00:45 | 1d 2h | 2,102 | 11K |
| 3 | April 2, 2025 13:00 | April 2, 2025 22:45 | 9h 45m | 1,493 | 5,372 |
| 4 | April 22, 2025 02:00 | April 22, 2025 06:30 | 4h 30m | 1,388 | 4,148 |
| 5 | May 27, 2025 09:30 | May 27, 2025 21:15 | 11h 45m | 1,376 | 3,480 |
| 6 | January 18, 2025 15:00 | January 19, 2025 01:45 | 10h 45m | 1,200 | 763 |
| 7 | August 22, 2025 21:00 | August 22, 2025 21:45 | 45m | 1,170 | 804 |
| 8 | August 13, 2025 12:00 | August 13, 2025 18:00 | 6h | 981 | 553 |
| 9 | June 22, 2025 02:30 | June 22, 2025 03:30 | 1h | 962 | 961 |
| 10 | December 15, 2025 14:30 | December 15, 2025 21:00 | 6h 30m | 924 | 3,008 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 57 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Tazewell 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Richlands - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,376 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. Tazewell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tazewell 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/tazewell-county