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2022 Giles County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Giles County, VA went without power for an average of 32.2 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 155th 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 Giles 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 | November 27, 2022 14:15 | November 27, 2022 19:30 | 5h 15m | 2,941 | 3,307 |
| 2 | July 21, 2022 16:30 | July 21, 2022 19:15 | 2h 45m | 2,503 | 5,634 |
| 3 | October 12, 2022 21:15 | October 13, 2022 01:45 | 4h 30m | 1,839 | 8,275 |
| 4 | December 15, 2022 11:45 | December 16, 2022 16:00 | 1d 4h | 1,579 | 5,389 |
| 5 | March 30, 2022 21:00 | March 30, 2022 22:00 | 1h | 1,551 | 778 |
| 6 | June 22, 2022 20:00 | June 24, 2022 22:30 | 2d 2h | 1,453 | 21K |
| 7 | June 14, 2022 13:30 | June 21, 2022 16:15 | 7d 2h | 1,253 | 21K |
| 8 | January 9, 2022 02:00 | January 9, 2022 05:00 | 3h | 1,165 | 352 |
| 9 | October 30, 2022 17:45 | November 3, 2022 19:15 | 4d 1h | 1,003 | 654 |
| 10 | July 18, 2022 20:45 | July 19, 2022 23:45 | 1d 3h | 863 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 49 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Giles 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 |
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 ÷ 5,569 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. Giles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Giles 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/giles-county