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2022 Wise County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wise County, VA went without power for an average of 58.8 hours, a total of 220K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 58th 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 Wise 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 18:45 | June 21, 2022 03:00 | 3d 8h | 6,725 | 98K |
| 2 | June 23, 2022 01:45 | June 23, 2022 17:30 | 15h 45m | 3,037 | 6,469 |
| 3 | July 25, 2022 19:30 | July 26, 2022 00:30 | 5h | 2,401 | 1,833 |
| 4 | July 5, 2022 20:30 | July 9, 2022 03:30 | 3d 7h | 1,266 | 8,738 |
| 5 | March 31, 2022 00:30 | April 1, 2022 01:45 | 1d 1h | 1,225 | 3,895 |
| 6 | August 30, 2022 00:30 | August 30, 2022 08:15 | 7h 45m | 1,146 | 2,092 |
| 7 | December 23, 2022 22:45 | December 24, 2022 00:15 | 1h 30m | 1,101 | 555 |
| 8 | August 5, 2022 21:45 | August 7, 2022 21:30 | 1d 23h | 1,043 | 7,922 |
| 9 | July 28, 2022 04:00 | July 30, 2022 23:00 | 2d 19h | 991 | 15K |
| 10 | June 2, 2022 13:45 | June 4, 2022 00:30 | 1d 10h | 871 | 2,597 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 67 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 Wise 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 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2022 | 2.5 hrs | 2.45 | 2.3 hrs | 1.82 |
| 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 ÷ 3,750 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. Wise County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wise 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/wise-county