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2021 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 36.5 hours, a total of 644K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 247th 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 Mecklenburg 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 08:45 | February 26, 2021 01:45 | 12d 17h | 11,762 | 604K |
| 2 | May 12, 2021 13:30 | May 12, 2021 18:15 | 4h 45m | 1,391 | 1,051 |
| 3 | August 30, 2021 23:30 | August 31, 2021 07:45 | 8h 15m | 1,350 | 3,450 |
| 4 | March 27, 2021 19:30 | March 28, 2021 04:45 | 9h 15m | 1,199 | 1,683 |
| 5 | September 24, 2021 13:30 | September 24, 2021 15:00 | 1h 30m | 1,156 | 293 |
| 6 | April 29, 2021 18:30 | April 29, 2021 22:00 | 3h 30m | 1,136 | 1,136 |
| 7 | September 23, 2021 03:30 | September 23, 2021 05:15 | 1h 45m | 758 | 1,327 |
| 8 | January 30, 2021 12:00 | January 30, 2021 15:30 | 3h 30m | 744 | 1,355 |
| 9 | September 1, 2021 17:45 | September 1, 2021 18:45 | 1h | 561 | 146 |
| 10 | April 22, 2021 16:30 | April 22, 2021 17:30 | 1h | 541 | 389 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 51 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Mecklenburg 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 ÷ 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, 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/mecklenburg-county