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2015 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 29.8 hours, a total of 352K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 77th 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 Lincoln 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 | July 13, 2015 13:15 | July 18, 2015 01:00 | 4d 11h | 3,502 | 121K |
| 2 | August 18, 2015 02:15 | August 18, 2015 22:15 | 20h | 2,617 | 6,502 |
| 3 | February 17, 2015 15:30 | February 17, 2015 22:00 | 6h 30m | 2,573 | 7,212 |
| 4 | June 12, 2015 21:30 | June 15, 2015 00:45 | 2d 3h | 2,573 | 5,239 |
| 5 | June 16, 2015 16:15 | June 18, 2015 15:00 | 1d 22h | 1,894 | 1,494 |
| 6 | December 24, 2015 07:30 | December 29, 2015 21:45 | 5d 14h | 1,511 | 22K |
| 7 | July 8, 2015 00:45 | July 8, 2015 18:00 | 17h 15m | 1,475 | 5,621 |
| 8 | July 9, 2015 21:15 | July 12, 2015 16:45 | 2d 19h | 1,305 | 14K |
| 9 | March 20, 2015 14:45 | March 20, 2015 20:15 | 5h 30m | 1,200 | 4,774 |
| 10 | October 3, 2015 01:45 | October 4, 2015 08:15 | 1d 6h | 1,193 | 3,657 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 85 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 Lincoln 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 |
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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county