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2022 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 31.6 hours, a total of 409K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 161st 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 Powhatan 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 | January 3, 2022 09:15 | January 7, 2022 08:45 | 3d 23h | 10,653 | 237K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 10:45 | December 25, 2022 12:30 | 2d 1h | 4,238 | 17K |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 20:00 | October 2, 2022 08:00 | 1d 12h | 2,951 | 13K |
| 4 | July 25, 2022 21:00 | July 26, 2022 18:45 | 21h 45m | 2,845 | 12K |
| 5 | January 27, 2022 08:45 | January 27, 2022 18:00 | 9h 15m | 2,463 | 10K |
| 6 | March 7, 2022 17:30 | March 8, 2022 15:00 | 21h 30m | 2,252 | 4,996 |
| 7 | July 3, 2022 18:30 | July 3, 2022 21:00 | 2h 30m | 1,884 | 1,908 |
| 8 | April 26, 2022 19:45 | April 27, 2022 17:00 | 21h 15m | 1,764 | 14K |
| 9 | August 10, 2022 22:00 | August 11, 2022 23:15 | 1d 1h | 1,695 | 6,313 |
| 10 | August 5, 2022 19:15 | August 8, 2022 09:30 | 2d 14h | 1,691 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 53 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Powhatan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 18.3 hrs | 4.07 | 5.4 hrs | 2.79 |
| 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county