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2023 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1070th 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 Pittsylvania 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 | March 5, 2023 06:30 | March 5, 2023 11:30 | 5h | 2,325 | 4,292 |
| 2 | August 28, 2023 00:30 | August 29, 2023 00:45 | 1d | 1,987 | 9,204 |
| 3 | August 4, 2023 23:00 | August 5, 2023 08:30 | 9h 30m | 1,870 | 3,664 |
| 4 | July 2, 2023 18:00 | July 4, 2023 17:45 | 1d 23h | 1,790 | 18K |
| 5 | December 10, 2023 05:45 | December 10, 2023 06:00 | 15m | 1,790 | 448 |
| 6 | September 11, 2023 05:00 | September 11, 2023 05:15 | 15m | 1,786 | 447 |
| 7 | February 13, 2023 13:30 | February 13, 2023 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1,577 | 1,981 |
| 8 | March 2, 2023 08:45 | March 2, 2023 09:00 | 15m | 1,562 | 391 |
| 9 | May 16, 2023 21:15 | May 18, 2023 02:30 | 1d 5h | 1,519 | 8,346 |
| 10 | July 23, 2023 20:30 | July 24, 2023 16:30 | 20h | 1,406 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 108 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Pittsylvania 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/pittsylvania-county