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2022 Buckingham County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Buckingham County, VA went without power for an average of 83.1 hours, a total of 448K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 35th 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 Buckingham 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 08:30 | January 11, 2022 18:00 | 8d 9h | 6,104 | 355K |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 21:15 | June 18, 2022 20:30 | 23h 15m | 3,452 | 32K |
| 3 | November 22, 2022 17:00 | November 22, 2022 20:15 | 3h 15m | 3,097 | 2,029 |
| 4 | July 25, 2022 20:15 | July 26, 2022 19:30 | 23h 15m | 1,696 | 2,241 |
| 5 | June 20, 2022 12:15 | June 20, 2022 12:45 | 30m | 1,591 | 402 |
| 6 | March 3, 2022 17:45 | March 3, 2022 19:45 | 2h | 1,529 | 668 |
| 7 | November 11, 2022 21:15 | November 12, 2022 04:45 | 7h 30m | 950 | 4,057 |
| 8 | December 23, 2022 12:45 | December 25, 2022 21:30 | 2d 8h | 884 | 13K |
| 9 | April 26, 2022 18:45 | April 27, 2022 10:30 | 15h 45m | 860 | 4,241 |
| 10 | June 22, 2022 22:00 | June 23, 2022 17:30 | 19h 30m | 758 | 1,526 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 41 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Buckingham 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,391 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. Buckingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buckingham 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/buckingham-county