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2022 Washington County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Washington County, VA went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 335K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 701st 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 Washington 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 12:30 | June 21, 2022 23:15 | 4d 10h | 2,761 | 71K |
| 2 | February 23, 2022 00:30 | February 23, 2022 21:45 | 21h 15m | 2,139 | 11K |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 07:45 | December 25, 2022 23:30 | 2d 15h | 1,780 | 18K |
| 4 | January 16, 2022 14:45 | January 18, 2022 04:30 | 1d 13h | 1,454 | 6,867 |
| 5 | June 13, 2022 15:45 | June 16, 2022 03:00 | 2d 11h | 1,353 | 16K |
| 6 | July 5, 2022 01:30 | July 8, 2022 23:15 | 3d 21h | 1,329 | 21K |
| 7 | June 2, 2022 09:00 | June 4, 2022 22:30 | 2d 13h | 1,177 | 17K |
| 8 | March 18, 2022 20:00 | March 20, 2022 00:00 | 1d 4h | 1,166 | 8,948 |
| 9 | August 10, 2022 14:30 | August 12, 2022 00:15 | 1d 9h | 1,080 | 11K |
| 10 | July 17, 2022 15:30 | July 19, 2022 17:30 | 2d 2h | 916 | 4,599 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 86 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Washington 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 |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | 2022 | 42 min | 0.47 | 42 min | 0.47 |
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 ÷ 32,558 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county