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2024 Halifax County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Halifax County, VA went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 130 Virginia counties and 978th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Halifax County, 2024
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 17, 2024 22:45 | July 18, 2024 21:30 | 22h 45m | 3,265 | 21K |
| 2 | May 18, 2024 05:00 | May 19, 2024 00:00 | 19h | 2,733 | 5,304 |
| 3 | June 26, 2024 18:30 | June 27, 2024 00:15 | 5h 45m | 2,351 | 3,285 |
| 4 | November 21, 2024 01:00 | November 21, 2024 18:00 | 17h | 2,173 | 7,436 |
| 5 | September 24, 2024 03:45 | September 24, 2024 08:15 | 4h 30m | 1,857 | 5,310 |
| 6 | May 22, 2024 03:30 | May 22, 2024 06:15 | 2h 45m | 1,851 | 4,632 |
| 7 | December 13, 2024 11:00 | December 13, 2024 16:15 | 5h 15m | 1,721 | 7,958 |
| 8 | September 22, 2024 00:45 | September 23, 2024 01:00 | 1d | 1,508 | 6,353 |
| 9 | January 9, 2024 18:00 | January 10, 2024 22:00 | 1d 4h | 1,255 | 3,995 |
| 10 | May 3, 2024 18:00 | May 4, 2024 04:00 | 10h | 1,250 | 1,918 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 68 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.50 | 4.6 hrs | 2.23 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/virginia/halifax-county