County annual report · FIPS 54039
2016 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 25.3 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 115th 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 Kanawha 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 17:45 | 15d 7h | 17,083 | 729K |
| 2 | June 21, 2016 16:00 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 10h 15m | 8,019 | 7,229 |
| 3 | September 21, 2016 17:00 | September 22, 2016 01:45 | 8h 45m | 7,212 | 9,129 |
| 4 | August 2, 2016 02:15 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 14h | 7,162 | 37K |
| 5 | December 18, 2016 03:45 | December 21, 2016 21:45 | 3d 18h | 6,678 | 77K |
| 6 | May 18, 2016 10:00 | May 20, 2016 01:45 | 1d 15h | 5,888 | 7,211 |
| 7 | August 30, 2016 11:00 | August 30, 2016 23:45 | 12h 45m | 4,886 | 9,722 |
| 8 | August 25, 2016 14:00 | August 30, 2016 02:45 | 4d 12h | 4,489 | 36K |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 14:45 | February 26, 2016 22:45 | 2d 8h | 4,459 | 13K |
| 10 | March 1, 2016 12:00 | March 5, 2016 03:00 | 3d 15h | 4,338 | 34K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 140 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county