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2022 Botetourt County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Botetourt County, VA went without power for an average of 25.6 hours, a total of 272K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 238th 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 Botetourt 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 | December 23, 2022 11:15 | December 27, 2022 21:45 | 4d 10h | 3,709 | 91K |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 21:00 | October 3, 2022 01:30 | 2d 4h | 2,398 | 23K |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 13:15 | January 6, 2022 03:30 | 2d 14h | 1,940 | 28K |
| 4 | July 18, 2022 10:30 | July 19, 2022 05:45 | 19h 15m | 1,740 | 1,939 |
| 5 | November 25, 2022 17:45 | November 29, 2022 19:00 | 4d 1h | 1,435 | 2,946 |
| 6 | June 17, 2022 03:30 | June 19, 2022 21:15 | 2d 17h | 1,362 | 29K |
| 7 | November 30, 2022 13:00 | November 30, 2022 16:45 | 3h 45m | 1,317 | 1,146 |
| 8 | December 11, 2022 09:15 | December 11, 2022 12:00 | 2h 45m | 972 | 2,431 |
| 9 | June 2, 2022 01:00 | June 3, 2022 03:00 | 1d 2h | 931 | 2,634 |
| 10 | July 12, 2022 19:45 | July 15, 2022 21:15 | 3d 1h | 738 | 7,723 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 56 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Botetourt 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
| 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 ÷ 10,626 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. Botetourt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Botetourt 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/botetourt-county