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2022 Tazewell County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Tazewell County, VA went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 217K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 718th 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 Tazewell 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 | May 26, 2022 22:30 | May 28, 2022 02:45 | 1d 4h | 2,786 | 7,720 |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 03:30 | June 21, 2022 02:15 | 3d 22h | 2,760 | 41K |
| 3 | January 16, 2022 15:15 | January 20, 2022 20:30 | 4d 5h | 2,299 | 13K |
| 4 | March 18, 2022 20:15 | March 20, 2022 01:00 | 1d 4h | 1,697 | 11K |
| 5 | July 8, 2022 02:45 | July 8, 2022 15:00 | 12h 15m | 1,465 | 10K |
| 6 | August 5, 2022 21:45 | August 7, 2022 22:30 | 2d | 1,433 | 8,717 |
| 7 | February 3, 2022 23:00 | February 4, 2022 21:00 | 22h | 1,383 | 4,258 |
| 8 | February 10, 2022 01:00 | February 10, 2022 05:15 | 4h 15m | 1,370 | 5,119 |
| 9 | February 18, 2022 04:00 | February 18, 2022 23:00 | 19h | 1,366 | 2,097 |
| 10 | August 10, 2022 16:30 | August 12, 2022 01:45 | 1d 9h | 1,280 | 5,278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 54 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Tazewell 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Richlands - (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 ÷ 21,376 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. Tazewell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tazewell 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/tazewell-county