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2022 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 26.4 hours, a total of 788K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 225th 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 Pittsylvania 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 14:45 | October 4, 2022 23:45 | 4d 9h | 11,476 | 243K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 08:00 | January 8, 2022 22:45 | 5d 14h | 9,915 | 104K |
| 3 | May 13, 2022 19:15 | May 13, 2022 19:30 | 15m | 6,262 | 1,566 |
| 4 | May 13, 2022 20:15 | May 13, 2022 22:00 | 1h 45m | 6,262 | 11K |
| 5 | June 16, 2022 11:30 | June 20, 2022 22:45 | 4d 11h | 5,786 | 73K |
| 6 | October 18, 2022 12:45 | October 18, 2022 20:30 | 7h 45m | 3,628 | 12K |
| 7 | May 15, 2022 11:15 | May 15, 2022 13:00 | 1h 45m | 3,561 | 5,333 |
| 8 | March 7, 2022 15:45 | March 8, 2022 22:15 | 1d 6h | 3,507 | 13K |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 11:30 | December 27, 2022 21:30 | 4d 10h | 3,357 | 69K |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 09:15 | March 13, 2022 05:45 | 20h 30m | 2,810 | 6,880 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 127 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Pittsylvania 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 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 18.3 hrs | 4.07 | 5.4 hrs | 2.79 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 2.38 | 3.2 hrs | 1.77 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Danville - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,827 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. Pittsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pittsylvania 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/pittsylvania-county