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2017 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 125 Virginia counties and 618th 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 Halifax 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 | March 29, 2017 15:15 | March 29, 2017 17:45 | 2h 30m | 8,628 | 2,914 |
| 2 | June 24, 2017 05:30 | June 24, 2017 16:45 | 11h 15m | 3,205 | 13K |
| 3 | December 9, 2017 00:30 | December 11, 2017 03:45 | 2d 3h | 2,137 | 32K |
| 4 | March 20, 2017 13:00 | March 20, 2017 18:00 | 5h | 1,951 | 1,470 |
| 5 | July 30, 2017 18:30 | July 31, 2017 09:30 | 15h | 1,772 | 2,333 |
| 6 | May 1, 2017 23:15 | May 2, 2017 12:15 | 13h | 1,491 | 5,215 |
| 7 | March 14, 2017 15:00 | March 14, 2017 17:45 | 2h 45m | 1,488 | 2,611 |
| 8 | August 26, 2017 03:45 | August 26, 2017 04:30 | 45m | 1,358 | 684 |
| 9 | April 25, 2017 02:45 | April 25, 2017 08:00 | 5h 15m | 1,246 | 3,156 |
| 10 | April 25, 2017 09:15 | April 26, 2017 01:15 | 16h | 1,246 | 1,930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 76 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Halifax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/halifax-county