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2016 Monroe County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Monroe County, WV went without power for an average of 86.5 hours, a total of 331K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 25th 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 Monroe 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 | July 1, 2016 02:30 | July 1, 2016 08:00 | 5h 30m | 11,488 | 31K |
| 2 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 28, 2016 19:30 | 5d 8h | 6,337 | 171K |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 13:30 | July 11, 2016 05:30 | 2d 16h | 6,020 | 71K |
| 4 | July 5, 2016 02:15 | July 5, 2016 04:45 | 2h 30m | 4,407 | 3,309 |
| 5 | March 15, 2016 00:00 | March 15, 2016 03:15 | 3h 15m | 1,990 | 3,487 |
| 6 | July 14, 2016 16:15 | July 14, 2016 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1,861 | 933 |
| 7 | August 19, 2016 18:30 | August 19, 2016 19:00 | 30m | 1,720 | 860 |
| 8 | May 29, 2016 18:45 | May 29, 2016 23:15 | 4h 30m | 1,551 | 6,955 |
| 9 | July 2, 2016 02:30 | July 2, 2016 22:45 | 20h 15m | 1,336 | 2,308 |
| 10 | February 14, 2016 13:00 | February 14, 2016 15:15 | 2h 15m | 1,208 | 2,416 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 41 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Monroe 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2016 | 10.8 hrs | 2.16 | 6.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2016 | 12.2 hrs | 4.53 | 7.7 hrs | 3.71 |
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 ÷ 3,829 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county