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2020 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 816th 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 Halifax 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 | February 7, 2020 11:00 | February 8, 2020 21:00 | 1d 10h | 4,155 | 22K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 14:15 | October 31, 2020 06:45 | 1d 16h | 3,187 | 34K |
| 3 | January 12, 2020 04:00 | January 12, 2020 22:00 | 18h | 2,477 | 10K |
| 4 | May 28, 2020 08:30 | May 28, 2020 11:00 | 2h 30m | 2,396 | 4,790 |
| 5 | February 2, 2020 19:45 | February 3, 2020 06:15 | 10h 30m | 2,395 | 4,611 |
| 6 | May 29, 2020 09:15 | May 29, 2020 13:30 | 4h 15m | 2,364 | 1,478 |
| 7 | August 26, 2020 15:15 | August 26, 2020 16:00 | 45m | 1,478 | 739 |
| 8 | January 2, 2020 14:30 | January 2, 2020 21:00 | 6h 30m | 1,465 | 913 |
| 9 | April 9, 2020 16:00 | April 9, 2020 23:00 | 7h | 1,291 | 409 |
| 10 | February 13, 2020 17:15 | February 13, 2020 20:15 | 3h | 935 | 2,271 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 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 Halifax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,791 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county