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2019 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 638th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mecklenburg County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 20, 2019 19:15 | June 22, 2019 20:30 | 2d 1h | 3,067 | 38K |
| 2 | June 18, 2019 12:00 | June 19, 2019 04:30 | 16h 30m | 2,796 | 4,351 |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 23:00 | November 1, 2019 21:45 | 22h 45m | 2,128 | 14K |
| 4 | March 19, 2019 10:15 | March 19, 2019 16:00 | 5h 45m | 1,868 | 6,218 |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 18:15 | November 27, 2019 18:45 | 30m | 1,472 | 428 |
| 6 | July 23, 2019 00:00 | July 24, 2019 03:00 | 1d 3h | 1,407 | 21K |
| 7 | June 3, 2019 03:45 | June 3, 2019 05:15 | 1h 30m | 1,378 | 2,067 |
| 8 | August 8, 2019 13:45 | August 8, 2019 14:15 | 30m | 1,362 | 341 |
| 9 | May 15, 2019 13:00 | May 15, 2019 14:00 | 1h | 1,358 | 681 |
| 10 | April 19, 2019 10:30 | April 19, 2019 14:45 | 4h 15m | 1,281 | 4,108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 75 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 2019, 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/virginia/mecklenburg-county