County annual report · FIPS 54069
2016 Ohio County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ohio County, WV went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 675th 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 Ohio 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 9, 2016 10:15 | July 9, 2016 17:30 | 7h 15m | 4,941 | 1,253 |
| 2 | August 19, 2016 13:00 | August 19, 2016 21:30 | 8h 30m | 3,685 | 6,735 |
| 3 | August 22, 2016 23:45 | August 23, 2016 06:15 | 6h 30m | 1,946 | 11K |
| 4 | July 24, 2016 18:30 | July 26, 2016 00:00 | 1d 5h | 1,889 | 16K |
| 5 | November 9, 2016 11:45 | November 9, 2016 16:15 | 4h 30m | 1,691 | 4,869 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 00:15 | July 7, 2016 22:30 | 22h 15m | 1,687 | 7,476 |
| 7 | December 18, 2016 01:30 | December 19, 2016 00:45 | 23h 15m | 1,414 | 5,405 |
| 8 | January 5, 2016 08:15 | January 5, 2016 20:30 | 12h 15m | 1,303 | 4,565 |
| 9 | October 15, 2016 20:15 | October 16, 2016 04:30 | 8h 15m | 1,189 | 3,768 |
| 10 | January 9, 2016 11:30 | January 9, 2016 12:30 | 1h | 996 | 996 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 83 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Ohio 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2016 | 8.5 hrs | 2.42 | 7.6 hrs | 2.31 |
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 ÷ 32,858 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. Ohio County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ohio 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/ohio-county