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2018 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 45.9 hours, a total of 724K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 124 Virginia counties and 128th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Halifax County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 11, 2018 19:00 | October 16, 2018 23:30 | 5d 4h | 7,324 | 461K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 04:45 | March 5, 2018 03:45 | 2d 23h | 5,792 | 80K |
| 3 | January 7, 2018 10:15 | January 8, 2018 19:30 | 1d 9h | 2,961 | 27K |
| 4 | January 30, 2018 04:15 | January 30, 2018 08:45 | 4h 30m | 2,728 | 6,088 |
| 5 | December 9, 2018 16:00 | December 11, 2018 23:30 | 2d 7h | 2,301 | 58K |
| 6 | January 29, 2018 03:45 | January 29, 2018 23:00 | 19h 15m | 1,925 | 9,002 |
| 7 | December 22, 2018 21:00 | December 22, 2018 22:00 | 1h | 1,801 | 1,353 |
| 8 | July 2, 2018 13:45 | July 2, 2018 18:30 | 4h 45m | 1,761 | 455 |
| 9 | May 17, 2018 04:30 | May 17, 2018 18:15 | 13h 45m | 1,708 | 5,368 |
| 10 | April 7, 2018 12:30 | April 7, 2018 16:15 | 3h 45m | 1,206 | 3,583 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 67 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/halifax-county