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2016 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 16.1 hours, a total of 384K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 192nd 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 Fayette 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 | January 20, 2016 00:15 | January 20, 2016 17:45 | 17h 30m | 7,333 | 34K |
| 2 | November 29, 2016 00:00 | December 1, 2016 16:15 | 2d 16h | 3,155 | 15K |
| 3 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 29, 2016 21:00 | 6d 10h | 3,056 | 145K |
| 4 | April 2, 2016 21:45 | April 5, 2016 04:45 | 2d 7h | 2,028 | 29K |
| 5 | March 14, 2016 22:15 | March 15, 2016 20:15 | 22h | 1,822 | 5,414 |
| 6 | April 29, 2016 16:45 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 3d 1h | 1,778 | 9,313 |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 14:30 | February 25, 2016 03:30 | 13h | 1,523 | 9,520 |
| 8 | June 16, 2016 20:30 | June 20, 2016 15:00 | 3d 18h | 1,275 | 4,488 |
| 9 | January 10, 2016 07:45 | January 10, 2016 08:45 | 1h | 1,064 | 1,064 |
| 10 | February 29, 2016 13:00 | March 1, 2016 03:00 | 14h | 1,064 | 816 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 82 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 Fayette 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 |
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 ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county