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2022 Lee County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lee County, VA went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 574th 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 Lee 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 | June 17, 2022 17:45 | June 20, 2022 02:45 | 2d 9h | 3,814 | 28K |
| 2 | June 13, 2022 02:15 | June 13, 2022 02:45 | 30m | 2,047 | 896 |
| 3 | June 30, 2022 13:30 | June 30, 2022 19:00 | 5h 30m | 1,945 | 4,113 |
| 4 | July 24, 2022 03:00 | July 24, 2022 03:30 | 30m | 1,772 | 444 |
| 5 | July 28, 2022 11:00 | July 28, 2022 22:15 | 11h 15m | 1,570 | 1,541 |
| 6 | July 8, 2022 17:30 | July 9, 2022 02:15 | 8h 45m | 1,487 | 1,805 |
| 7 | February 17, 2022 23:00 | February 18, 2022 07:15 | 8h 15m | 1,472 | 2,468 |
| 8 | December 24, 2022 12:15 | December 24, 2022 16:45 | 4h 30m | 1,410 | 1,306 |
| 9 | October 13, 2022 18:15 | October 13, 2022 20:00 | 1h 45m | 997 | 269 |
| 10 | October 26, 2022 16:00 | October 26, 2022 16:15 | 15m | 988 | 247 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 85 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2022 | 4.2 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2022 | 2.5 hrs | 2.45 | 2.3 hrs | 1.82 |
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 ÷ 7,474 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. Lee County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county