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2016 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 34.9 hours, a total of 412K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 81st 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 Lincoln 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 | February 24, 2016 13:30 | February 26, 2016 02:00 | 1d 12h | 2,649 | 22K |
| 2 | March 3, 2016 21:15 | March 7, 2016 21:15 | 4d | 2,525 | 21K |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 18:45 | July 10, 2016 10:45 | 1d 16h | 2,455 | 17K |
| 4 | July 3, 2016 12:15 | July 7, 2016 01:30 | 3d 13h | 2,284 | 23K |
| 5 | April 16, 2016 13:30 | April 16, 2016 16:30 | 3h | 2,230 | 6,688 |
| 6 | February 15, 2016 15:15 | February 16, 2016 00:00 | 8h 45m | 1,986 | 13K |
| 7 | May 6, 2016 14:00 | May 6, 2016 17:30 | 3h 30m | 1,878 | 1,466 |
| 8 | December 7, 2016 13:15 | December 8, 2016 01:30 | 12h 15m | 1,861 | 7,309 |
| 9 | October 20, 2016 21:00 | October 22, 2016 14:45 | 1d 17h | 1,852 | 19K |
| 10 | June 15, 2016 13:15 | June 17, 2016 19:30 | 2d 6h | 1,757 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 106 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county