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2022 Bedford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bedford County, VA went without power for an average of 15.7 hours, a total of 753K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 431st 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 Bedford 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 3, 2022 08:00 | January 6, 2022 22:30 | 3d 14h | 13,735 | 224K |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 16:45 | October 3, 2022 14:45 | 2d 22h | 5,620 | 95K |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 10:15 | December 28, 2022 02:30 | 4d 16h | 5,467 | 140K |
| 4 | August 21, 2022 02:15 | August 21, 2022 13:15 | 11h | 3,365 | 3,422 |
| 5 | May 26, 2022 20:15 | May 29, 2022 21:15 | 3d 1h | 2,746 | 17K |
| 6 | June 17, 2022 05:00 | June 21, 2022 03:00 | 3d 22h | 2,366 | 29K |
| 7 | September 10, 2022 21:15 | September 12, 2022 22:30 | 2d 1h | 1,903 | 9,639 |
| 8 | December 28, 2022 03:30 | December 28, 2022 23:30 | 20h | 1,848 | 9,481 |
| 9 | June 26, 2022 01:15 | June 26, 2022 01:45 | 30m | 1,798 | 899 |
| 10 | June 27, 2022 21:15 | June 28, 2022 05:00 | 7h 45m | 1,588 | 9,372 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 107 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Bedford 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 18.3 hrs | 4.07 | 5.4 hrs | 2.79 |
| Town of Bedford - (VA) | 2022 | 12.4 hrs | 3.13 | 3.8 hrs | 1.40 |
| 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 ÷ 47,929 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county