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2015 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 93.5 hours, a total of 466K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 16th 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 Ritchie 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 14, 2015 09:45 | May 14, 2015 12:30 | 2h 45m | 6,438 | 18K |
| 2 | March 5, 2015 01:45 | March 8, 2015 06:00 | 3d 4h | 5,406 | 250K |
| 3 | March 8, 2015 07:00 | March 11, 2015 23:15 | 3d 16h | 4,192 | 92K |
| 4 | January 12, 2015 17:45 | January 13, 2015 00:45 | 7h | 2,774 | 15K |
| 5 | June 7, 2015 12:45 | June 7, 2015 15:00 | 2h 15m | 2,728 | 686 |
| 6 | January 8, 2015 08:00 | January 8, 2015 21:30 | 13h 30m | 1,542 | 4,533 |
| 7 | December 1, 2015 19:00 | December 1, 2015 23:00 | 4h | 1,332 | 5,298 |
| 8 | April 21, 2015 17:30 | April 21, 2015 18:15 | 45m | 1,330 | 554 |
| 9 | November 18, 2015 16:45 | November 18, 2015 23:15 | 6h 30m | 1,314 | 4,729 |
| 10 | April 21, 2015 19:00 | April 21, 2015 22:00 | 3h | 1,304 | 1,541 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 44 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county