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2022 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 1105th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mecklenburg County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 30, 2022 19:30 | October 1, 2022 23:45 | 1d 4h | 3,790 | 25K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 12:00 | December 25, 2022 00:45 | 1d 12h | 2,524 | 17K |
| 3 | March 7, 2022 13:30 | March 8, 2022 05:00 | 15h 30m | 1,512 | 2,531 |
| 4 | August 25, 2022 05:45 | August 25, 2022 13:30 | 7h 45m | 1,502 | 7,663 |
| 5 | January 3, 2022 07:30 | January 4, 2022 17:15 | 1d 9h | 1,083 | 6,879 |
| 6 | September 13, 2022 06:00 | September 13, 2022 13:15 | 7h 15m | 1,030 | 2,374 |
| 7 | May 18, 2022 13:45 | May 18, 2022 17:00 | 3h 15m | 1,003 | 3,117 |
| 8 | April 25, 2022 13:15 | April 25, 2022 15:45 | 2h 30m | 824 | 1,346 |
| 9 | May 7, 2022 02:15 | May 7, 2022 10:00 | 7h 45m | 777 | 3,913 |
| 10 | July 27, 2022 09:45 | July 27, 2022 15:15 | 5h 30m | 759 | 964 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 68 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Mecklenburg County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 18.3 hrs | 4.07 | 5.4 hrs | 2.79 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 2.38 | 3.2 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/virginia/mecklenburg-county