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2018 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 457K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 361st 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 Pittsylvania 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 | March 2, 2018 04:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 20h | 7,807 | 183K |
| 2 | October 11, 2018 13:30 | October 18, 2018 22:15 | 7d 8h | 6,726 | 134K |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 17:30 | December 12, 2018 00:45 | 2d 7h | 2,647 | 18K |
| 4 | April 15, 2018 19:45 | April 16, 2018 22:45 | 1d 3h | 2,537 | 26K |
| 5 | October 2, 2018 00:45 | October 2, 2018 01:30 | 45m | 2,241 | 1,485 |
| 6 | March 25, 2018 01:30 | March 28, 2018 18:00 | 3d 16h | 2,024 | 14K |
| 7 | December 26, 2018 22:00 | December 27, 2018 19:00 | 21h | 1,911 | 3,386 |
| 8 | April 2, 2018 11:45 | April 3, 2018 13:45 | 1d 2h | 1,692 | 488 |
| 9 | October 29, 2018 00:30 | October 29, 2018 04:30 | 4h | 1,636 | 3,409 |
| 10 | September 1, 2018 00:30 | September 2, 2018 00:00 | 23h 30m | 1,353 | 7,472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 60 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 Pittsylvania 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/pittsylvania-county