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2019 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 190K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.4 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 863rd 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 Pittsylvania 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 | January 13, 2019 03:00 | January 15, 2019 00:15 | 1d 21h | 3,814 | 37K |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 18:15 | February 25, 2019 21:30 | 1d 3h | 1,811 | 18K |
| 3 | January 11, 2019 20:45 | January 11, 2019 21:15 | 30m | 1,758 | 879 |
| 4 | May 31, 2019 21:30 | June 2, 2019 15:15 | 1d 17h | 1,581 | 31K |
| 5 | October 20, 2019 07:00 | October 20, 2019 19:00 | 12h | 1,549 | 1,340 |
| 6 | August 26, 2019 11:45 | August 27, 2019 02:30 | 14h 45m | 1,473 | 3,368 |
| 7 | August 28, 2019 15:15 | August 28, 2019 17:15 | 2h | 1,419 | 1,293 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 14:15 | November 2, 2019 12:00 | 1d 21h | 1,319 | 12K |
| 9 | April 26, 2019 15:15 | April 26, 2019 19:00 | 3h 45m | 1,010 | 1,323 |
| 10 | January 30, 2019 16:15 | January 31, 2019 00:15 | 8h | 942 | 1,891 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 62 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2019; 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, 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/pittsylvania-county