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2015 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 17.6 hours, a total of 259K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 139th 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 Nicholas 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 | August 22, 2015 00:45 | August 22, 2015 07:00 | 6h 15m | 5,066 | 8,758 |
| 2 | May 16, 2015 11:00 | May 16, 2015 16:15 | 5h 15m | 2,796 | 13K |
| 3 | June 20, 2015 17:45 | June 22, 2015 21:30 | 2d 3h | 2,724 | 34K |
| 4 | August 7, 2015 21:15 | August 8, 2015 07:45 | 10h 30m | 2,350 | 9,298 |
| 5 | December 28, 2015 23:15 | December 30, 2015 01:30 | 1d 2h | 2,182 | 11K |
| 6 | April 2, 2015 19:15 | April 3, 2015 17:00 | 21h 45m | 1,967 | 14K |
| 7 | April 19, 2015 13:30 | April 20, 2015 02:15 | 12h 45m | 1,963 | 5,144 |
| 8 | April 27, 2015 15:30 | April 27, 2015 17:15 | 1h 45m | 1,963 | 3,400 |
| 9 | September 10, 2015 03:15 | September 10, 2015 22:45 | 19h 30m | 1,963 | 3,101 |
| 10 | July 13, 2015 06:45 | July 18, 2015 23:45 | 5d 17h | 1,960 | 45K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 67 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2015 | 13.6 hrs | 2.18 | 6.1 hrs | 1.89 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county