County annual report · FIPS 51037
2016 Charlotte County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Charlotte County, VA went without power for an average of 22.6 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 130th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charlotte County, 2016
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 24, 2016 20:45 | February 26, 2016 11:30 | 1d 14h | 3,427 | 29K |
| 2 | January 30, 2016 17:15 | January 30, 2016 22:00 | 4h 45m | 3,122 | 991 |
| 3 | August 4, 2016 02:00 | August 4, 2016 03:30 | 1h 30m | 2,102 | 3,153 |
| 4 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 9, 2016 23:00 | 1d | 1,520 | 9,471 |
| 5 | June 23, 2016 21:45 | June 24, 2016 22:30 | 1d | 1,328 | 8,320 |
| 6 | July 1, 2016 22:45 | July 2, 2016 22:30 | 23h 45m | 1,173 | 5,097 |
| 7 | March 10, 2016 15:45 | March 10, 2016 16:00 | 15m | 1,128 | 282 |
| 8 | April 11, 2016 14:30 | April 12, 2016 00:15 | 9h 45m | 1,013 | 4,304 |
| 9 | July 8, 2016 23:00 | July 9, 2016 12:15 | 13h 15m | 952 | 3,657 |
| 10 | July 23, 2016 05:15 | July 23, 2016 13:00 | 7h 45m | 950 | 6,494 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 46 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 Charlotte County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.9 hrs | 2.02 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,148 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. Charlotte County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlotte County, VA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/virginia/charlotte-county