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2022 Smyth County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Smyth County, VA went without power for an average of 18.9 hours, a total of 354K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 352nd 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 Smyth 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 17:00 | June 21, 2022 23:15 | 4d 6h | 5,635 | 65K |
| 2 | May 6, 2022 21:45 | May 8, 2022 22:00 | 2d | 5,241 | 65K |
| 3 | December 31, 2022 15:15 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 8h 45m | 3,014 | 5,121 |
| 4 | June 14, 2022 04:30 | June 16, 2022 03:30 | 1d 23h | 2,737 | 22K |
| 5 | October 12, 2022 10:15 | October 12, 2022 15:15 | 5h | 2,551 | 12K |
| 6 | March 9, 2022 05:45 | March 9, 2022 07:45 | 2h | 2,419 | 4,836 |
| 7 | April 6, 2022 15:00 | April 6, 2022 17:00 | 2h | 2,413 | 1,874 |
| 8 | July 16, 2022 04:00 | July 16, 2022 13:30 | 9h 30m | 2,399 | 3,655 |
| 9 | December 8, 2022 00:15 | December 8, 2022 03:15 | 3h | 2,055 | 2,583 |
| 10 | April 17, 2022 07:30 | April 17, 2022 09:45 | 2h 15m | 1,946 | 3,897 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 78 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Smyth 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 |
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 ÷ 18,737 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. Smyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smyth 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/smyth-county