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2015 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 156th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kanawha County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 20, 2015 00:00 | February 24, 2015 22:00 | 4d 22h | 10,105 | 73K |
| 2 | June 15, 2015 21:00 | June 20, 2015 00:45 | 4d 3h | 8,048 | 52K |
| 3 | May 13, 2015 07:15 | May 14, 2015 03:45 | 20h 30m | 7,627 | 23K |
| 4 | July 13, 2015 07:45 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 5d 18h | 5,626 | 106K |
| 5 | June 20, 2015 02:00 | June 25, 2015 02:15 | 5d | 5,520 | 53K |
| 6 | July 7, 2015 03:15 | July 12, 2015 22:30 | 5d 19h | 5,451 | 89K |
| 7 | November 4, 2015 10:30 | November 5, 2015 18:15 | 1d 7h | 4,340 | 9,416 |
| 8 | November 12, 2015 08:30 | November 15, 2015 00:15 | 2d 15h | 4,112 | 19K |
| 9 | November 2, 2015 15:15 | November 2, 2015 22:45 | 7h 30m | 3,888 | 2,722 |
| 10 | June 8, 2015 01:00 | June 15, 2015 15:45 | 7d 14h | 3,744 | 71K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 174 reached 100+ customers, 61 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Kanawha County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 11.7 hrs | 2.41 | 7.9 hrs | 2.21 |
| Black Diamond 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 West Virginia's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha County, WV annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/west-virginia/kanawha-county