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2022 Russell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Russell County, VA went without power for an average of 23.0 hours, a total of 354K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 279th 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 Russell 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 | November 22, 2022 09:45 | November 22, 2022 13:00 | 3h 15m | 7,472 | 4,688 |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 18:15 | June 21, 2022 21:30 | 4d 3h | 5,538 | 95K |
| 3 | December 28, 2022 19:15 | December 29, 2022 01:00 | 5h 45m | 5,483 | 26K |
| 4 | March 18, 2022 06:15 | March 20, 2022 02:15 | 1d 20h | 5,307 | 18K |
| 5 | May 27, 2022 07:15 | May 28, 2022 03:45 | 20h 30m | 2,484 | 26K |
| 6 | June 16, 2022 07:15 | June 16, 2022 19:30 | 12h 15m | 2,461 | 11K |
| 7 | August 10, 2022 21:30 | August 12, 2022 19:45 | 1d 22h | 1,918 | 9,021 |
| 8 | January 1, 2022 00:00 | January 14, 2022 14:00 | 13d 14h | 1,312 | 24K |
| 9 | May 2, 2022 22:15 | May 4, 2022 23:15 | 2d 1h | 639 | 1,943 |
| 10 | April 1, 2022 19:15 | April 2, 2022 15:30 | 20h 15m | 633 | 1,907 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 68 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 Russell 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 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 2022 | 17.4 hrs | 2.67 | 10.1 hrs | 2.22 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,440 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county