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2017 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1039th 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 Mecklenburg 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 | February 25, 2017 20:45 | February 26, 2017 03:30 | 6h 45m | 2,928 | 5,976 |
| 2 | August 7, 2017 20:15 | August 8, 2017 00:45 | 4h 30m | 2,258 | 1,708 |
| 3 | January 5, 2017 21:30 | January 6, 2017 14:00 | 16h 30m | 2,254 | 4,530 |
| 4 | August 19, 2017 01:30 | August 19, 2017 08:15 | 6h 45m | 1,486 | 4,452 |
| 5 | July 18, 2017 21:30 | July 19, 2017 04:30 | 7h | 1,444 | 1,125 |
| 6 | May 5, 2017 10:15 | May 5, 2017 21:15 | 11h | 1,334 | 2,550 |
| 7 | May 8, 2017 12:00 | May 8, 2017 18:45 | 6h 45m | 1,275 | 1,284 |
| 8 | August 11, 2017 02:00 | August 11, 2017 04:15 | 2h 15m | 1,138 | 2,561 |
| 9 | December 8, 2017 16:30 | December 8, 2017 20:30 | 4h | 1,118 | 289 |
| 10 | May 25, 2017 06:15 | May 26, 2017 00:15 | 18h | 996 | 3,249 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 87 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/mecklenburg-county