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2015 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 240K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 390th 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 Putnam 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 | June 18, 2015 18:45 | June 20, 2015 00:30 | 1d 5h | 3,181 | 16K |
| 2 | October 22, 2015 15:30 | October 22, 2015 16:30 | 1h | 3,112 | 2,334 |
| 3 | July 13, 2015 14:30 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 5d 11h | 2,616 | 53K |
| 4 | May 22, 2015 06:45 | May 22, 2015 15:30 | 8h 45m | 2,348 | 5,530 |
| 5 | August 31, 2015 20:45 | September 3, 2015 17:15 | 2d 20h | 2,315 | 5,342 |
| 6 | December 3, 2015 13:30 | December 3, 2015 15:45 | 2h 15m | 2,162 | 3,766 |
| 7 | January 7, 2015 23:45 | January 8, 2015 07:15 | 7h 30m | 1,680 | 3,541 |
| 8 | March 30, 2015 08:45 | March 30, 2015 12:45 | 4h | 1,433 | 2,876 |
| 9 | March 27, 2015 12:30 | March 27, 2015 19:30 | 7h | 1,134 | 1,492 |
| 10 | April 30, 2015 04:15 | April 30, 2015 08:15 | 4h | 1,117 | 4,468 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 91 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county