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2024 Pittsylvania County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pittsylvania County, VA went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 260K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.4 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1041st 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 Pittsylvania 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 | April 30, 2024 02:00 | May 2, 2024 09:30 | 2d 7h | 4,876 | 45K |
| 2 | May 5, 2024 09:30 | May 5, 2024 11:45 | 2h 15m | 3,856 | 7,373 |
| 3 | July 12, 2024 19:15 | July 13, 2024 15:45 | 20h 30m | 3,651 | 6,429 |
| 4 | April 16, 2024 12:15 | April 16, 2024 14:00 | 1h 45m | 3,082 | 2,803 |
| 5 | August 8, 2024 09:30 | August 10, 2024 02:30 | 1d 17h | 1,908 | 15K |
| 6 | June 15, 2024 11:30 | June 15, 2024 20:30 | 9h | 1,904 | 5,636 |
| 7 | May 23, 2024 20:15 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 4h | 1,791 | 3,761 |
| 8 | November 21, 2024 00:30 | November 25, 2024 19:45 | 4d 19h | 1,543 | 6,279 |
| 9 | May 4, 2024 06:00 | May 4, 2024 21:15 | 15h 15m | 1,510 | 6,098 |
| 10 | July 23, 2024 03:00 | July 24, 2024 15:45 | 1d 12h | 1,424 | 4,698 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 87 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2024 | 29.5 hrs | 2.79 | 7.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 6.5 hrs | 3.12 | 5.2 hrs | 2.81 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/pittsylvania-county