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2017 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 125 Virginia counties and 1338th 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 Pittsylvania 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 13, 2017 17:30 | March 14, 2017 00:45 | 7h 15m | 8,368 | 9,926 |
| 2 | March 29, 2017 15:30 | March 29, 2017 17:45 | 2h 15m | 3,449 | 2,032 |
| 3 | January 7, 2017 18:45 | January 7, 2017 22:30 | 3h 45m | 2,044 | 3,400 |
| 4 | December 8, 2017 20:15 | December 10, 2017 20:45 | 2d | 2,019 | 18K |
| 5 | September 24, 2017 13:30 | September 25, 2017 07:45 | 18h 15m | 1,694 | 460 |
| 6 | April 24, 2017 13:45 | April 24, 2017 20:30 | 6h 45m | 1,406 | 437 |
| 7 | April 23, 2017 21:00 | April 24, 2017 00:30 | 3h 30m | 1,400 | 2,936 |
| 8 | February 9, 2017 19:00 | February 10, 2017 15:00 | 20h | 1,391 | 2,325 |
| 9 | May 22, 2017 22:00 | May 23, 2017 13:00 | 15h | 984 | 1,462 |
| 10 | July 6, 2017 20:45 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 2h | 967 | 1,219 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 58 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/pittsylvania-county