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2020 Charlotte County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Charlotte County, VA went without power for an average of 10.4 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 763rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charlotte County, 2020
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 16, 2020 04:00 | March 16, 2020 11:30 | 7h 30m | 1,439 | 2,409 |
| 2 | April 6, 2020 18:00 | April 6, 2020 22:00 | 4h | 1,438 | 3,994 |
| 3 | April 6, 2020 22:45 | April 7, 2020 02:00 | 3h 15m | 1,438 | 1,081 |
| 4 | April 4, 2020 04:00 | April 4, 2020 04:30 | 30m | 1,437 | 719 |
| 5 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | April 10, 2020 05:45 | 13h 15m | 1,243 | 1,578 |
| 6 | November 12, 2020 13:30 | November 12, 2020 23:30 | 10h | 1,092 | 2,789 |
| 7 | April 7, 2020 16:30 | April 7, 2020 17:00 | 30m | 1,001 | 399 |
| 8 | April 27, 2020 20:00 | April 28, 2020 02:15 | 6h 15m | 956 | 3,831 |
| 9 | January 12, 2020 03:45 | January 12, 2020 22:00 | 18h 15m | 795 | 7,021 |
| 10 | February 7, 2020 12:30 | February 8, 2020 20:15 | 1d 7h | 753 | 3,801 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 33 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Charlotte County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 2.90 | 4.4 hrs | 2.60 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,148 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. Charlotte County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlotte County, VA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/virginia/charlotte-county