County annual report · FIPS 51143
2016 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 191K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 538th 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 Pittsylvania 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 | June 7, 2016 00:30 | June 7, 2016 04:30 | 4h | 3,046 | 3,802 |
| 2 | February 27, 2016 13:15 | February 27, 2016 21:15 | 8h | 3,018 | 14K |
| 3 | May 27, 2016 05:15 | May 27, 2016 08:45 | 3h 30m | 3,014 | 11K |
| 4 | February 16, 2016 05:30 | February 17, 2016 21:00 | 1d 15h | 2,660 | 17K |
| 5 | July 8, 2016 22:00 | July 10, 2016 15:00 | 1d 17h | 2,533 | 32K |
| 6 | November 27, 2016 12:30 | November 28, 2016 12:00 | 23h 30m | 2,030 | 2,676 |
| 7 | April 11, 2016 18:15 | April 11, 2016 21:00 | 2h 45m | 2,022 | 1,530 |
| 8 | October 8, 2016 10:15 | October 8, 2016 15:00 | 4h 45m | 1,970 | 1,608 |
| 9 | August 1, 2016 16:00 | August 1, 2016 18:30 | 2h 30m | 1,966 | 501 |
| 10 | July 12, 2016 09:15 | July 12, 2016 11:00 | 1h 45m | 1,962 | 3,434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 86 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Pittsylvania 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 29,827 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. Pittsylvania County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pittsylvania 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/pittsylvania-county