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2022 Bland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bland County, VA went without power for an average of 32.7 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 150th 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 Bland 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 | July 6, 2022 20:45 | July 7, 2022 03:45 | 7h | 2,750 | 4,590 |
| 2 | December 9, 2022 15:45 | December 10, 2022 01:15 | 9h 30m | 2,199 | 8,838 |
| 3 | July 19, 2022 10:15 | July 20, 2022 02:15 | 16h | 2,183 | 13K |
| 4 | June 17, 2022 14:15 | June 20, 2022 19:15 | 3d 5h | 2,140 | 17K |
| 5 | March 12, 2022 14:30 | March 13, 2022 19:45 | 1d 5h | 1,276 | 7,607 |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 10:00 | December 25, 2022 23:30 | 2d 13h | 1,132 | 9,375 |
| 7 | July 27, 2022 19:30 | July 27, 2022 20:45 | 1h 15m | 1,079 | 694 |
| 8 | July 28, 2022 09:00 | July 28, 2022 15:00 | 6h | 1,079 | 6,205 |
| 9 | June 23, 2022 22:15 | June 24, 2022 05:15 | 7h | 1,077 | 6,734 |
| 10 | July 5, 2022 19:30 | July 6, 2022 18:30 | 23h | 794 | 4,883 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 32 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Bland 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 |
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 ÷ 3,556 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. Bland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bland 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/bland-county