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2020 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 1465th 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 Mecklenburg 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 10:45 | February 8, 2020 18:30 | 1d 7h | 4,233 | 20K |
| 2 | April 30, 2020 01:00 | April 30, 2020 23:00 | 22h | 1,555 | 1,188 |
| 3 | October 29, 2020 15:30 | October 30, 2020 18:30 | 1d 3h | 1,394 | 9,962 |
| 4 | April 18, 2020 16:00 | April 18, 2020 22:15 | 6h 15m | 1,367 | 2,344 |
| 5 | September 10, 2020 19:45 | September 10, 2020 21:15 | 1h 30m | 1,226 | 920 |
| 6 | January 28, 2020 14:30 | January 28, 2020 14:45 | 15m | 974 | 244 |
| 7 | July 23, 2020 20:00 | July 24, 2020 12:45 | 16h 45m | 853 | 1,206 |
| 8 | August 4, 2020 06:00 | August 4, 2020 15:15 | 9h 15m | 847 | 2,788 |
| 9 | July 13, 2020 17:30 | July 14, 2020 00:45 | 7h 15m | 843 | 767 |
| 10 | April 13, 2020 11:00 | April 14, 2020 17:15 | 1d 6h | 719 | 2,206 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 57 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/mecklenburg-county