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2022 Buchanan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Buchanan County, VA went without power for an average of 30.0 hours, a total of 383K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 173rd 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 Buchanan 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 13, 2022 00:00 | July 17, 2022 01:45 | 4d 1h | 4,044 | 104K |
| 2 | January 8, 2022 06:00 | January 8, 2022 22:00 | 16h | 3,251 | 12K |
| 3 | July 12, 2022 12:15 | July 12, 2022 21:45 | 9h 30m | 3,027 | 4,379 |
| 4 | June 17, 2022 19:00 | June 21, 2022 22:15 | 4d 3h | 2,378 | 43K |
| 5 | August 5, 2022 15:45 | August 10, 2022 04:15 | 4d 12h | 1,841 | 31K |
| 6 | July 10, 2022 03:15 | July 11, 2022 21:00 | 1d 17h | 1,776 | 22K |
| 7 | September 23, 2022 02:30 | September 24, 2022 02:00 | 23h 30m | 1,709 | 8,616 |
| 8 | June 2, 2022 13:45 | June 4, 2022 16:15 | 2d 2h | 1,473 | 25K |
| 9 | June 14, 2022 05:45 | June 15, 2022 19:00 | 1d 13h | 1,164 | 8,693 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 01:45 | December 26, 2022 02:00 | 3d | 1,119 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 50 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Buchanan 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 |
| 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 ÷ 12,760 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county