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2022 Nelson County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Nelson County, VA went without power for an average of 71.3 hours, a total of 400K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 43rd 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 Nelson 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 | September 30, 2022 21:15 | October 3, 2022 08:15 | 2d 11h | 2,936 | 35K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 13:30 | December 27, 2022 19:15 | 4d 5h | 2,743 | 33K |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 11:15 | January 10, 2022 17:15 | 7d 6h | 2,692 | 190K |
| 4 | July 25, 2022 13:45 | July 26, 2022 16:00 | 1d 2h | 2,342 | 9,779 |
| 5 | November 18, 2022 18:00 | November 18, 2022 18:45 | 45m | 2,304 | 848 |
| 6 | July 19, 2022 03:15 | July 19, 2022 17:00 | 13h 45m | 2,289 | 17K |
| 7 | August 10, 2022 17:15 | August 12, 2022 02:45 | 1d 9h | 1,658 | 18K |
| 8 | April 29, 2022 14:15 | April 29, 2022 17:15 | 3h | 1,412 | 1,509 |
| 9 | December 5, 2022 18:45 | December 6, 2022 05:15 | 10h 30m | 1,287 | 356 |
| 10 | April 6, 2022 00:30 | April 6, 2022 01:15 | 45m | 1,277 | 639 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Nelson 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 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2022 | 45.6 hrs | 5.38 | 6.0 hrs | 3.06 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | 2022 | 6.2 hrs | 2.49 | 3.5 hrs | 2.05 |
| 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 ÷ 5,606 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county