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2022 Lancaster County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lancaster County, VA went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 928th 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 Lancaster 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 | December 23, 2022 13:30 | December 25, 2022 01:00 | 1d 11h | 2,867 | 6,212 |
| 2 | May 22, 2022 15:45 | May 22, 2022 21:30 | 5h 45m | 2,075 | 1,576 |
| 3 | May 8, 2022 04:30 | May 8, 2022 15:00 | 10h 30m | 1,543 | 3,617 |
| 4 | May 22, 2022 02:00 | May 22, 2022 05:30 | 3h 30m | 1,235 | 2,543 |
| 5 | June 2, 2022 23:00 | June 3, 2022 17:00 | 18h | 662 | 2,805 |
| 6 | January 3, 2022 10:30 | January 5, 2022 19:15 | 2d 8h | 555 | 9,459 |
| 7 | July 21, 2022 20:45 | July 22, 2022 11:00 | 14h 15m | 506 | 1,599 |
| 8 | September 11, 2022 16:45 | September 11, 2022 20:30 | 3h 45m | 446 | 782 |
| 9 | December 14, 2022 19:45 | December 14, 2022 23:45 | 4h | 433 | 499 |
| 10 | January 27, 2022 11:00 | January 27, 2022 15:45 | 4h 45m | 421 | 799 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 20 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 15.4 hrs | 3.32 | 3.5 hrs | 2.25 |
| 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 ÷ 5,333 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county