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2016 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 34.5 hours, a total of 509K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 85th 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 Nicholas 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 | June 28, 2016 17:45 | 5d 7h | 7,432 | 325K |
| 2 | February 15, 2016 23:15 | February 16, 2016 05:00 | 5h 45m | 5,074 | 23K |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 12:45 | July 15, 2016 19:30 | 1d 6h | 3,199 | 1,733 |
| 4 | May 19, 2016 21:00 | May 20, 2016 02:30 | 5h 30m | 3,078 | 4,891 |
| 5 | May 20, 2016 12:15 | May 20, 2016 13:15 | 1h | 2,542 | 2,542 |
| 6 | January 20, 2016 01:15 | January 20, 2016 11:30 | 10h 15m | 2,011 | 10K |
| 7 | March 14, 2016 21:15 | March 15, 2016 20:00 | 22h 45m | 2,005 | 14K |
| 8 | May 13, 2016 09:15 | May 13, 2016 21:00 | 11h 45m | 1,746 | 2,834 |
| 9 | March 18, 2016 12:00 | March 18, 2016 19:00 | 7h | 1,734 | 1,012 |
| 10 | December 12, 2016 23:15 | December 13, 2016 01:45 | 2h 30m | 1,730 | 1,314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 70 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Nicholas 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 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county