County annual report · FIPS 51037
2017 Charlotte County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Charlotte County, VA went without power for an average of 25.8 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 208th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charlotte County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2017 21:15 | December 11, 2017 20:30 | 2d 23h | 4,390 | 100K |
| 2 | August 12, 2017 08:45 | August 12, 2017 10:15 | 1h 30m | 1,196 | 1,794 |
| 3 | May 24, 2017 00:00 | May 24, 2017 03:45 | 3h 45m | 1,190 | 1,606 |
| 4 | June 17, 2017 03:00 | June 17, 2017 16:15 | 13h 15m | 1,118 | 4,728 |
| 5 | November 22, 2017 08:15 | November 22, 2017 20:30 | 12h 15m | 1,012 | 912 |
| 6 | October 15, 2017 12:00 | October 15, 2017 13:45 | 1h 45m | 932 | 765 |
| 7 | March 1, 2017 22:15 | March 2, 2017 15:15 | 17h | 890 | 2,177 |
| 8 | July 18, 2017 19:00 | July 19, 2017 04:45 | 9h 45m | 556 | 1,750 |
| 9 | April 6, 2017 12:30 | April 6, 2017 17:30 | 5h | 528 | 932 |
| 10 | March 9, 2017 06:45 | March 9, 2017 07:00 | 15m | 398 | 100 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 38 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.94 | 2.5 hrs | 1.69 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/virginia/charlotte-county