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2016 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 259K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 187th 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 Halifax 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 | July 8, 2016 22:30 | July 11, 2016 00:15 | 2d 1h | 11,819 | 121K |
| 2 | July 27, 2016 03:30 | July 27, 2016 19:15 | 15h 45m | 5,499 | 6,215 |
| 3 | June 16, 2016 23:30 | June 20, 2016 11:45 | 3d 12h | 3,514 | 25K |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 18:15 | February 26, 2016 08:30 | 1d 14h | 3,467 | 14K |
| 5 | August 31, 2016 11:00 | August 31, 2016 16:15 | 5h 15m | 3,432 | 1,958 |
| 6 | February 10, 2016 00:45 | February 10, 2016 12:00 | 11h 15m | 1,966 | 3,726 |
| 7 | January 15, 2016 19:45 | January 16, 2016 11:30 | 15h 45m | 903 | 5,656 |
| 8 | February 15, 2016 11:45 | February 15, 2016 23:15 | 11h 30m | 845 | 5,480 |
| 9 | February 23, 2016 20:45 | February 23, 2016 22:45 | 2h | 814 | 831 |
| 10 | June 3, 2016 02:00 | June 3, 2016 09:00 | 7h | 813 | 1,268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 87 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/halifax-county