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2015 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 127 Virginia counties and 684th 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 Mecklenburg 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 | February 26, 2015 07:00 | February 27, 2015 02:00 | 19h | 2,203 | 12K |
| 2 | February 8, 2015 20:00 | February 9, 2015 12:00 | 16h | 1,966 | 1,226 |
| 3 | October 4, 2015 13:00 | October 5, 2015 12:45 | 23h 45m | 1,908 | 5,351 |
| 4 | July 4, 2015 04:30 | July 4, 2015 05:30 | 1h | 1,438 | 777 |
| 5 | February 15, 2015 00:00 | February 15, 2015 20:45 | 20h 45m | 1,405 | 5,413 |
| 6 | August 15, 2015 19:30 | August 17, 2015 11:30 | 1d 16h | 1,219 | 1,982 |
| 7 | March 17, 2015 14:00 | March 17, 2015 17:45 | 3h 45m | 1,115 | 3,066 |
| 8 | January 23, 2015 19:45 | January 23, 2015 23:45 | 4h | 968 | 1,595 |
| 9 | August 12, 2015 12:45 | August 12, 2015 14:00 | 1h 15m | 914 | 885 |
| 10 | November 11, 2015 12:45 | November 11, 2015 18:45 | 6h | 766 | 2,116 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Mecklenburg 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.0 hrs | 2.14 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,640 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. Mecklenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mecklenburg 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/mecklenburg-county