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2022 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1073rd 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 Essex 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 | May 28, 2022 02:30 | May 28, 2022 03:00 | 30m | 2,501 | 1,251 |
| 2 | May 28, 2022 05:00 | May 28, 2022 05:15 | 15m | 2,501 | 625 |
| 3 | July 25, 2022 22:30 | July 26, 2022 19:30 | 21h | 2,500 | 5,850 |
| 4 | August 4, 2022 20:45 | August 5, 2022 06:30 | 9h 45m | 2,019 | 1,662 |
| 5 | June 2, 2022 13:15 | June 3, 2022 19:00 | 1d 5h | 1,011 | 4,069 |
| 6 | July 15, 2022 16:45 | July 16, 2022 03:00 | 10h 15m | 879 | 2,658 |
| 7 | July 9, 2022 21:45 | July 9, 2022 23:30 | 1h 45m | 852 | 215 |
| 8 | July 29, 2022 19:15 | July 30, 2022 07:00 | 11h 45m | 733 | 2,239 |
| 9 | August 8, 2022 18:15 | August 8, 2022 19:00 | 45m | 473 | 355 |
| 10 | August 8, 2022 21:00 | August 8, 2022 23:00 | 2h | 473 | 553 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 26 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2022 | 43.7 hrs | 3.10 | 3.5 hrs | 1.73 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county