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2023 Mecklenburg County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mecklenburg County, VA went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1435th 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 Mecklenburg 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 | June 16, 2023 20:00 | June 17, 2023 14:30 | 18h 30m | 1,460 | 5,847 |
| 2 | September 23, 2023 01:15 | September 24, 2023 01:30 | 1d | 1,424 | 5,120 |
| 3 | March 21, 2023 19:30 | March 22, 2023 00:45 | 5h 15m | 1,293 | 5,156 |
| 4 | June 12, 2023 20:15 | June 13, 2023 03:30 | 7h 15m | 1,291 | 1,737 |
| 5 | March 22, 2023 19:15 | March 22, 2023 21:30 | 2h 15m | 1,282 | 645 |
| 6 | March 29, 2023 18:45 | March 29, 2023 19:00 | 15m | 1,272 | 318 |
| 7 | December 11, 2023 03:30 | December 11, 2023 17:00 | 13h 30m | 1,260 | 3,406 |
| 8 | May 2, 2023 11:45 | May 2, 2023 19:15 | 7h 30m | 1,255 | 1,005 |
| 9 | May 4, 2023 14:00 | May 4, 2023 14:30 | 30m | 1,233 | 617 |
| 10 | May 10, 2023 12:30 | May 10, 2023 12:45 | 15m | 1,230 | 308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 73 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| 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 n/a of Virginia's customers in 2023; 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, 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/mecklenburg-county