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2016 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 14.1 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 231st 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 McDowell 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 | March 3, 2016 13:45 | March 3, 2016 15:30 | 1h 45m | 2,448 | 4,282 |
| 2 | May 2, 2016 01:45 | May 2, 2016 15:15 | 13h 30m | 1,743 | 18K |
| 3 | June 23, 2016 23:00 | June 26, 2016 01:30 | 2d 2h | 1,045 | 19K |
| 4 | January 10, 2016 15:45 | January 11, 2016 07:45 | 16h | 958 | 14K |
| 5 | June 22, 2016 15:15 | June 22, 2016 21:45 | 6h 30m | 936 | 725 |
| 6 | March 2, 2016 02:15 | March 2, 2016 19:00 | 16h 45m | 932 | 6,648 |
| 7 | May 14, 2016 21:30 | May 15, 2016 02:45 | 5h 15m | 923 | 4,675 |
| 8 | June 26, 2016 06:30 | June 27, 2016 05:00 | 22h 30m | 920 | 14K |
| 9 | December 7, 2016 22:00 | December 8, 2016 00:15 | 2h 15m | 910 | 2,048 |
| 10 | July 14, 2016 06:30 | July 14, 2016 14:15 | 7h 45m | 866 | 3,157 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 49 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county