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2025 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 176K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 1403rd 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 Washington 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 19:45 | May 20, 2025 03:45 | 3d 8h | 2,278 | 40K |
| 2 | May 13, 2025 06:00 | May 13, 2025 22:15 | 16h 15m | 1,595 | 6,209 |
| 3 | September 15, 2025 12:15 | September 15, 2025 17:45 | 5h 30m | 1,345 | 361 |
| 4 | November 19, 2025 14:15 | November 19, 2025 23:45 | 9h 30m | 910 | 1,187 |
| 5 | April 30, 2025 12:30 | April 30, 2025 19:45 | 7h 15m | 895 | 718 |
| 6 | November 9, 2025 20:30 | November 10, 2025 02:30 | 6h | 810 | 1,228 |
| 7 | November 9, 2025 09:00 | November 9, 2025 12:45 | 3h 45m | 809 | 1,643 |
| 8 | March 31, 2025 10:30 | March 31, 2025 22:45 | 12h 15m | 770 | 1,858 |
| 9 | June 20, 2025 14:45 | June 21, 2025 20:30 | 1d 5h | 762 | 942 |
| 10 | December 19, 2025 02:15 | December 20, 2025 23:30 | 1d 21h | 762 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 72 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Washington 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 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2024 | 8.8 hrs | 7.58 | 36 min | 0.34 |
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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county