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2021 Charlotte County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Charlotte County, VA went without power for an average of 184.9 hours, a total of 952K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 31st of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charlotte County, 2021
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 13, 2021 05:15 | February 26, 2021 19:30 | 13d 14h | 6,505 | 914K |
| 2 | August 14, 2021 17:15 | August 15, 2021 09:30 | 16h 15m | 2,198 | 6,518 |
| 3 | May 10, 2021 14:15 | May 10, 2021 19:15 | 5h | 963 | 1,258 |
| 4 | April 13, 2021 17:15 | April 13, 2021 23:15 | 6h | 961 | 3,113 |
| 5 | November 24, 2021 13:00 | November 24, 2021 16:15 | 3h 15m | 891 | 1,623 |
| 6 | November 24, 2021 18:15 | November 24, 2021 20:00 | 1h 45m | 890 | 1,558 |
| 7 | June 24, 2021 02:15 | June 24, 2021 09:15 | 7h | 829 | 1,948 |
| 8 | May 5, 2021 20:00 | May 5, 2021 20:15 | 15m | 587 | 147 |
| 9 | July 1, 2021 18:45 | July 2, 2021 08:00 | 13h 15m | 506 | 3,475 |
| 10 | July 6, 2021 11:15 | July 6, 2021 11:30 | 15m | 470 | 118 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 38 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 97.5 hrs | 3.86 | 4.8 hrs | 2.49 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 33.7 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.43 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/virginia/charlotte-county