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2021 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 91.8 hours, a total of 2.7M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 88th 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 Pittsylvania 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 10:00 | February 21, 2021 22:45 | 8d 12h | 31,563 | 1.4M |
| 2 | August 28, 2021 10:15 | August 28, 2021 13:00 | 2h 45m | 15,599 | 34K |
| 3 | August 30, 2021 21:15 | September 2, 2021 01:45 | 2d 4h | 14,346 | 167K |
| 4 | June 11, 2021 03:30 | June 12, 2021 03:00 | 23h 30m | 7,092 | 21K |
| 5 | August 6, 2021 12:15 | August 9, 2021 19:00 | 3d 6h | 3,395 | 164K |
| 6 | October 21, 2021 05:00 | November 9, 2021 14:45 | 19d 9h | 3,234 | 676K |
| 7 | January 28, 2021 07:00 | January 29, 2021 02:30 | 19h 30m | 3,109 | 17K |
| 8 | September 30, 2021 12:30 | September 30, 2021 21:00 | 8h 30m | 2,764 | 1,957 |
| 9 | October 19, 2021 13:00 | October 21, 2021 02:15 | 1d 13h | 2,247 | 21K |
| 10 | September 20, 2021 22:30 | September 21, 2021 00:45 | 2h 15m | 2,232 | 5,022 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 81 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/pittsylvania-county