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2015 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 412th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Halifax County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2015 21:15 | May 1, 2015 05:00 | 7h 45m | 4,832 | 16K |
| 2 | October 4, 2015 10:30 | October 5, 2015 11:30 | 1d 1h | 2,977 | 12K |
| 3 | September 19, 2015 12:00 | September 20, 2015 19:30 | 1d 7h | 2,864 | 5,139 |
| 4 | October 29, 2015 20:00 | October 30, 2015 05:15 | 9h 15m | 1,765 | 450 |
| 5 | January 28, 2015 16:00 | January 28, 2015 17:45 | 1h 45m | 1,724 | 436 |
| 6 | February 15, 2015 00:00 | February 16, 2015 04:00 | 1d 4h | 1,381 | 9,444 |
| 7 | September 8, 2015 21:00 | September 9, 2015 13:45 | 16h 45m | 1,176 | 2,671 |
| 8 | February 26, 2015 07:45 | February 27, 2015 05:15 | 21h 30m | 1,109 | 7,547 |
| 9 | September 17, 2015 12:45 | September 17, 2015 18:15 | 5h 30m | 960 | 254 |
| 10 | April 2, 2015 14:00 | April 2, 2015 14:45 | 45m | 929 | 465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 55 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 Halifax County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Danville - (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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,791 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax County, VA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/virginia/halifax-county