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2015 Mercer County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Mercer County, WV went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 283K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 363rd 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 Mercer 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 | March 28, 2015 13:30 | March 30, 2015 12:45 | 1d 23h | 10,864 | 38K |
| 2 | August 15, 2015 16:30 | August 16, 2015 03:15 | 10h 45m | 5,549 | 13K |
| 3 | May 15, 2015 05:30 | May 15, 2015 09:30 | 4h | 3,169 | 12K |
| 4 | March 14, 2015 16:45 | March 15, 2015 03:30 | 10h 45m | 1,858 | 3,310 |
| 5 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 20, 2015 03:15 | 1d 11h | 1,660 | 8,935 |
| 6 | February 24, 2015 02:15 | February 24, 2015 23:15 | 21h | 1,561 | 4,871 |
| 7 | November 18, 2015 11:15 | November 18, 2015 15:00 | 3h 45m | 1,538 | 3,077 |
| 8 | November 17, 2015 07:45 | November 18, 2015 00:00 | 16h 15m | 1,529 | 4,438 |
| 9 | July 13, 2015 06:45 | July 17, 2015 02:45 | 3d 20h | 1,487 | 39K |
| 10 | September 17, 2015 12:45 | September 17, 2015 18:30 | 5h 45m | 1,290 | 381 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 106 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Mercer 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 ÷ 38,077 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county