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2021 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 54.0 hours, a total of 852K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 164th 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 Halifax 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 09:45 | February 20, 2021 23:00 | 7d 13h | 10,851 | 789K |
| 2 | June 17, 2021 12:30 | June 17, 2021 13:00 | 30m | 1,680 | 840 |
| 3 | May 26, 2021 19:15 | May 26, 2021 22:45 | 3h 30m | 1,468 | 2,240 |
| 4 | August 16, 2021 11:30 | August 16, 2021 14:45 | 3h 15m | 1,249 | 955 |
| 5 | October 25, 2021 22:30 | October 27, 2021 03:45 | 1d 5h | 1,148 | 11K |
| 6 | May 29, 2021 14:30 | May 29, 2021 22:00 | 7h 30m | 1,126 | 2,152 |
| 7 | August 27, 2021 18:00 | August 28, 2021 01:30 | 7h 30m | 1,001 | 4,414 |
| 8 | February 23, 2021 23:15 | February 24, 2021 02:30 | 3h 15m | 996 | 1,249 |
| 9 | May 14, 2021 13:15 | May 14, 2021 15:00 | 1h 45m | 761 | 1,185 |
| 10 | March 9, 2021 22:15 | March 10, 2021 02:15 | 4h | 547 | 1,304 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 57 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Halifax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 33.7 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.43 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/halifax-county