County annual report · FIPS 51117
2016 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 144K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 432nd 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 Mecklenburg 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 22:45 | July 10, 2016 07:15 | 1d 8h | 3,991 | 31K |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 11:30 | February 16, 2016 17:00 | 5h 30m | 3,928 | 6,806 |
| 3 | May 17, 2016 13:45 | May 17, 2016 18:15 | 4h 30m | 3,605 | 6,317 |
| 4 | May 2, 2016 20:15 | May 3, 2016 08:00 | 11h 45m | 2,968 | 4,541 |
| 5 | June 7, 2016 19:00 | June 8, 2016 11:15 | 16h 15m | 2,736 | 2,084 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 21:45 | February 25, 2016 23:45 | 1d 2h | 1,774 | 7,086 |
| 7 | July 5, 2016 06:15 | July 5, 2016 14:00 | 7h 45m | 1,698 | 1,924 |
| 8 | June 5, 2016 03:15 | June 5, 2016 19:00 | 15h 45m | 1,456 | 2,791 |
| 9 | September 22, 2016 06:30 | September 22, 2016 19:30 | 13h | 1,310 | 4,102 |
| 10 | September 19, 2016 03:15 | September 19, 2016 14:45 | 11h 30m | 1,283 | 1,755 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 75 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/mecklenburg-county