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2018 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 28.1 hours, a total of 496K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 198th 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 Mecklenburg 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 4, 2018 16:00 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 36d 19h | 9,277 | 307K |
| 2 | November 10, 2018 15:00 | December 31, 2018 00:15 | 50d 9h | 3,607 | 79K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 06:30 | March 5, 2018 12:15 | 3d 5h | 2,358 | 19K |
| 4 | January 7, 2018 07:30 | January 8, 2018 00:00 | 16h 30m | 2,007 | 5,141 |
| 5 | June 2, 2018 01:00 | June 2, 2018 18:00 | 17h | 1,998 | 4,004 |
| 6 | February 7, 2018 16:00 | February 7, 2018 22:30 | 6h 30m | 1,776 | 3,700 |
| 7 | May 15, 2018 13:15 | May 15, 2018 14:15 | 1h | 1,775 | 1,462 |
| 8 | April 16, 2018 02:30 | April 16, 2018 14:00 | 11h 30m | 1,744 | 3,967 |
| 9 | May 7, 2018 00:00 | May 7, 2018 06:30 | 6h 30m | 1,543 | 2,655 |
| 10 | June 20, 2018 01:15 | June 20, 2018 09:30 | 8h 15m | 1,500 | 5,171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 62 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 40.6 hrs | 4.32 | 5.1 hrs | 2.55 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; 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, 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/mecklenburg-county