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2022 Highland County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Highland County, VA went without power for an average of 28.2 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 198th 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 Highland 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 | March 20, 2022 03:45 | March 20, 2022 13:00 | 9h 15m | 1,802 | 14K |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 18:15 | June 19, 2022 10:45 | 1d 16h | 473 | 6,871 |
| 3 | December 15, 2022 15:15 | December 15, 2022 21:15 | 6h | 344 | 446 |
| 4 | June 9, 2022 16:15 | June 9, 2022 22:00 | 5h 45m | 339 | 702 |
| 5 | February 28, 2022 15:45 | February 28, 2022 19:00 | 3h 15m | 307 | 417 |
| 6 | September 11, 2022 05:45 | September 11, 2022 17:45 | 12h | 215 | 1,098 |
| 7 | May 22, 2022 21:30 | May 23, 2022 00:30 | 3h | 213 | 478 |
| 8 | April 18, 2022 11:30 | April 18, 2022 15:30 | 4h | 212 | 215 |
| 9 | May 24, 2022 11:15 | May 24, 2022 15:00 | 3h 45m | 212 | 747 |
| 10 | June 1, 2022 18:30 | June 1, 2022 18:45 | 15m | 212 | 53 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 24 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 Highland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2022 | 6.2 hrs | 2.49 | 3.5 hrs | 2.05 |
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
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 ÷ 1,392 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. Highland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highland 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/highland-county