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2022 Stafford County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Stafford County, VA went without power for an average of 40.3 hours, a total of 2.7M customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 107th 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 Stafford 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 12:00 | January 9, 2022 08:30 | 5d 20h | 48,311 | 2.5M |
| 2 | June 22, 2022 13:45 | June 24, 2022 23:45 | 2d 10h | 10,069 | 49K |
| 3 | August 10, 2022 20:30 | August 11, 2022 16:30 | 20h | 5,286 | 11K |
| 4 | July 12, 2022 16:45 | July 14, 2022 09:15 | 1d 16h | 4,294 | 26K |
| 5 | June 9, 2022 13:30 | June 9, 2022 22:45 | 9h 15m | 3,734 | 2,363 |
| 6 | August 21, 2022 01:30 | August 21, 2022 12:00 | 10h 30m | 3,711 | 4,292 |
| 7 | May 23, 2022 00:00 | May 23, 2022 17:45 | 17h 45m | 3,707 | 7,672 |
| 8 | June 10, 2022 04:00 | June 10, 2022 08:30 | 4h 30m | 3,702 | 3,648 |
| 9 | March 31, 2022 15:45 | March 31, 2022 23:45 | 8h | 3,651 | 5,679 |
| 10 | January 30, 2022 10:45 | January 30, 2022 17:15 | 6h 30m | 3,650 | 4,645 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 103 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Stafford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2022 | 43.7 hrs | 3.10 | 3.5 hrs | 1.73 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | 2016 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 15.4 hrs | 3.32 | 3.5 hrs | 2.25 |
| 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 ÷ 67,741 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. Stafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stafford 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/stafford-county