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2023 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1204th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Halifax County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 2, 2023 15:30 | July 4, 2023 18:45 | 2d 3h | 4,390 | 17K |
| 2 | June 5, 2023 21:15 | June 6, 2023 01:00 | 3h 45m | 2,414 | 5,492 |
| 3 | November 21, 2023 12:45 | November 21, 2023 18:45 | 6h | 1,840 | 9,184 |
| 4 | July 16, 2023 17:30 | July 16, 2023 23:00 | 5h 30m | 1,559 | 1,518 |
| 5 | July 9, 2023 14:45 | July 10, 2023 14:00 | 23h 15m | 1,356 | 4,448 |
| 6 | July 29, 2023 23:45 | July 31, 2023 02:15 | 1d 2h | 1,132 | 8,050 |
| 7 | June 21, 2023 14:00 | June 22, 2023 01:15 | 11h 15m | 1,031 | 442 |
| 8 | October 21, 2023 14:00 | October 21, 2023 21:15 | 7h 15m | 971 | 425 |
| 9 | September 23, 2023 02:30 | September 24, 2023 05:45 | 1d 3h | 955 | 5,716 |
| 10 | September 10, 2023 12:45 | September 10, 2023 20:30 | 7h 45m | 846 | 1,388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 48 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 Halifax County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/virginia/halifax-county