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2016 Clay County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Clay County, WV went without power for an average of 228.7 hours, a total of 563K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 8th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clay County, 2016
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 23, 2016 10:45 | July 8, 2016 00:15 | 14d 13h | 5,299 | 428K |
| 2 | September 29, 2016 20:45 | October 1, 2016 13:00 | 1d 16h | 2,579 | 23K |
| 3 | August 2, 2016 11:15 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 5h | 1,733 | 4,072 |
| 4 | December 6, 2016 16:30 | December 7, 2016 00:00 | 7h 30m | 1,100 | 2,543 |
| 5 | December 17, 2016 15:45 | December 20, 2016 00:45 | 2d 9h | 899 | 13K |
| 6 | July 14, 2016 16:15 | July 19, 2016 14:00 | 4d 21h | 843 | 6,590 |
| 7 | March 1, 2016 21:30 | March 3, 2016 00:00 | 1d 2h | 729 | 6,166 |
| 8 | June 16, 2016 14:30 | June 17, 2016 02:30 | 12h | 682 | 3,267 |
| 9 | February 16, 2016 05:30 | February 16, 2016 12:30 | 7h | 676 | 1,296 |
| 10 | June 8, 2016 14:30 | June 8, 2016 19:15 | 4h 45m | 648 | 1,803 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 60 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Clay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2016 | 10.8 hrs | 2.16 | 6.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,463 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay County, WV annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/west-virginia/clay-county