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2022 Amherst County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Amherst County, VA went without power for an average of 39.3 hours, a total of 708K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 114th 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 Amherst 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 | June 17, 2022 20:45 | June 21, 2022 18:45 | 3d 22h | 8,180 | 257K |
| 2 | January 2, 2022 08:30 | January 8, 2022 22:45 | 6d 14h | 5,002 | 159K |
| 3 | September 8, 2022 05:45 | September 8, 2022 14:00 | 8h 15m | 2,371 | 1,721 |
| 4 | November 22, 2022 10:15 | November 22, 2022 23:45 | 13h 30m | 2,341 | 1,246 |
| 5 | January 16, 2022 21:45 | January 18, 2022 19:45 | 1d 22h | 1,820 | 35K |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 10:30 | December 27, 2022 18:30 | 4d 8h | 1,806 | 44K |
| 7 | September 30, 2022 21:30 | October 4, 2022 02:00 | 3d 4h | 1,553 | 36K |
| 8 | February 17, 2022 08:15 | February 18, 2022 18:15 | 1d 10h | 1,363 | 36K |
| 9 | February 16, 2022 05:15 | February 16, 2022 09:30 | 4h 15m | 1,318 | 3,300 |
| 10 | October 22, 2022 02:45 | October 22, 2022 05:30 | 2h 45m | 1,262 | 3,228 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 63 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Amherst 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 |
| 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 ÷ 18,016 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. Amherst County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amherst 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/amherst-county