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2025 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 41.3 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 131 Virginia counties and 114th 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 Wise 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 | November 12, 2025 13:45 | November 12, 2025 22:00 | 8h 15m | 18,354 | 4,698 |
| 2 | May 16, 2025 10:45 | May 19, 2025 04:15 | 2d 17h | 4,026 | 47K |
| 3 | June 29, 2025 14:45 | June 29, 2025 23:30 | 8h 45m | 3,293 | 1,479 |
| 4 | December 19, 2025 05:45 | December 20, 2025 22:30 | 1d 16h | 1,897 | 12K |
| 5 | March 5, 2025 04:15 | March 6, 2025 08:00 | 1d 3h | 1,343 | 6,307 |
| 6 | July 17, 2025 18:15 | July 17, 2025 22:30 | 4h 15m | 1,137 | 443 |
| 7 | October 30, 2025 13:00 | October 30, 2025 20:45 | 7h 45m | 1,129 | 733 |
| 8 | November 11, 2025 11:30 | November 11, 2025 21:15 | 9h 45m | 1,029 | 575 |
| 9 | May 20, 2025 21:30 | May 21, 2025 22:00 | 1d | 956 | 4,467 |
| 10 | July 15, 2025 07:15 | July 15, 2025 11:30 | 4h 15m | 845 | 1,060 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 73 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Wise 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2024 | 8.4 hrs | 4.97 | 1.7 hrs | 3.38 |
| 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 ÷ 3,750 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. Wise County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wise 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/wise-county