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2022 Albemarle County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Albemarle County, VA went without power for an average of 63.7 hours, a total of 2.9M customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 52nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albemarle County, 2022
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 1, 2022 00:00 | March 1, 2022 23:15 | 59d 23h | 36,322 | 2.4M |
| 2 | June 2, 2022 12:30 | June 30, 2022 17:30 | 28d 5h | 17,443 | 156K |
| 3 | May 22, 2022 21:15 | May 25, 2022 13:30 | 2d 16h | 8,703 | 36K |
| 4 | May 4, 2022 06:00 | May 4, 2022 21:45 | 15h 45m | 7,374 | 4,668 |
| 5 | December 22, 2022 17:00 | December 26, 2022 00:15 | 3d 7h | 5,124 | 65K |
| 6 | September 30, 2022 21:45 | October 4, 2022 23:00 | 4d 1h | 3,862 | 51K |
| 7 | July 25, 2022 17:45 | July 27, 2022 16:15 | 1d 22h | 3,778 | 13K |
| 8 | August 3, 2022 21:45 | August 4, 2022 18:30 | 20h 45m | 3,301 | 1,651 |
| 9 | July 11, 2022 12:15 | July 12, 2022 02:30 | 14h 15m | 2,889 | 893 |
| 10 | August 5, 2022 18:30 | August 6, 2022 08:00 | 13h 30m | 2,667 | 2,854 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 88 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Albemarle County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 17.4 hrs | 2.67 | 10.1 hrs | 2.22 |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2022 | 43.7 hrs | 3.10 | 3.5 hrs | 1.73 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2022 | 45.6 hrs | 5.38 | 6.0 hrs | 3.06 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Virginia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 45,280 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. Albemarle County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albemarle County, VA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/virginia/albemarle-county