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2020 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 15.7 hours, a total of 469K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 533rd 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 Pittsylvania 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 | October 29, 2020 06:15 | November 1, 2020 02:30 | 2d 20h | 12,021 | 157K |
| 2 | August 8, 2020 06:15 | August 8, 2020 09:30 | 3h 15m | 3,766 | 11K |
| 3 | July 28, 2020 12:30 | July 29, 2020 09:30 | 21h | 3,237 | 8,169 |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 13:15 | November 10, 2020 22:45 | 9h 30m | 1,896 | 1,875 |
| 5 | October 25, 2020 04:00 | October 25, 2020 16:00 | 12h | 1,835 | 4,292 |
| 6 | August 1, 2020 01:15 | August 1, 2020 08:00 | 6h 45m | 1,791 | 2,303 |
| 7 | April 8, 2020 21:45 | April 22, 2020 11:00 | 13d 13h | 1,657 | 33K |
| 8 | February 27, 2020 11:30 | February 28, 2020 12:00 | 1d | 1,539 | 37K |
| 9 | January 11, 2020 00:30 | January 29, 2020 12:00 | 18d 11h | 1,498 | 36K |
| 10 | April 27, 2020 09:00 | May 6, 2020 14:45 | 9d 5h | 1,496 | 42K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 96 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/pittsylvania-county