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2016 Mason County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mason County, WV went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 357th 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 Mason 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 10, 2016 07:45 | January 10, 2016 20:45 | 13h | 1,993 | 8,329 |
| 2 | January 2, 2016 22:45 | January 3, 2016 05:00 | 6h 15m | 1,439 | 8,141 |
| 3 | November 14, 2016 05:30 | November 14, 2016 10:45 | 5h 15m | 1,415 | 4,697 |
| 4 | April 16, 2016 13:45 | April 18, 2016 11:15 | 1d 21h | 1,122 | 4,010 |
| 5 | April 21, 2016 13:45 | April 21, 2016 23:30 | 9h 45m | 1,116 | 2,111 |
| 6 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 30, 2016 14:15 | 7d 3h | 1,109 | 15K |
| 7 | January 19, 2016 06:00 | January 19, 2016 12:30 | 6h 30m | 1,026 | 4,799 |
| 8 | April 2, 2016 22:15 | April 4, 2016 15:00 | 1d 16h | 876 | 16K |
| 9 | March 9, 2016 14:30 | March 9, 2016 16:30 | 2h | 688 | 935 |
| 10 | December 30, 2016 01:30 | December 30, 2016 15:30 | 14h | 671 | 1,855 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 64 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Mason 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 ÷ 14,979 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. Mason County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mason 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/mason-county