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2022 Galax city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Galax city, VA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 114th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1848th 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 Galax city, 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 | March 31, 2022 11:45 | March 31, 2022 21:15 | 9h 30m | 1,066 | 2,760 |
| 2 | February 4, 2022 15:45 | February 4, 2022 20:15 | 4h 30m | 991 | 2,027 |
| 3 | November 5, 2022 14:15 | November 5, 2022 15:15 | 1h | 665 | 664 |
| 4 | July 5, 2022 20:30 | July 6, 2022 16:15 | 19h 45m | 546 | 2,869 |
| 5 | April 3, 2022 03:45 | April 3, 2022 05:45 | 2h | 545 | 1,090 |
| 6 | November 13, 2022 16:30 | November 13, 2022 21:15 | 4h 45m | 541 | 569 |
| 7 | June 20, 2022 17:45 | June 20, 2022 19:45 | 2h | 216 | 171 |
| 8 | January 3, 2022 13:45 | January 4, 2022 20:15 | 1d 6h | 114 | 490 |
| 9 | June 17, 2022 20:30 | June 19, 2022 16:45 | 1d 20h | 70 | 1,940 |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 20:00 | March 13, 2022 18:30 | 22h 30m | 59 | 291 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 8 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Galax city 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 ÷ 5,393 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. Galax city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Galax city, 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/galax-city