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2015 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 184K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 155th 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 McDowell 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 | May 18, 2015 11:45 | May 18, 2015 20:30 | 8h 45m | 2,673 | 9,042 |
| 2 | April 12, 2015 10:15 | April 12, 2015 15:30 | 5h 15m | 1,719 | 3,657 |
| 3 | July 9, 2015 18:30 | July 11, 2015 21:00 | 2d 2h | 1,550 | 3,344 |
| 4 | July 13, 2015 14:30 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 5d 11h | 1,535 | 81K |
| 5 | February 5, 2015 11:15 | February 6, 2015 03:00 | 15h 45m | 1,087 | 4,132 |
| 6 | June 5, 2015 19:30 | June 5, 2015 20:15 | 45m | 1,021 | 512 |
| 7 | May 25, 2015 10:15 | May 25, 2015 14:00 | 3h 45m | 949 | 2,601 |
| 8 | April 1, 2015 13:15 | April 1, 2015 23:45 | 10h 30m | 878 | 1,845 |
| 9 | June 24, 2015 10:30 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 4d 22h | 817 | 3,948 |
| 10 | December 17, 2015 12:45 | December 18, 2015 01:15 | 12h 30m | 784 | 4,066 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 59 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county