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2016 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 216K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 549th 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 Putnam 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 25, 2016 16:45 | 2d 6h | 6,174 | 23K |
| 2 | November 13, 2016 17:30 | November 13, 2016 22:15 | 4h 45m | 5,911 | 3,091 |
| 3 | November 13, 2016 01:45 | November 13, 2016 02:45 | 1h | 5,908 | 4,269 |
| 4 | May 1, 2016 04:00 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 1d 14h | 1,965 | 9,925 |
| 5 | April 10, 2016 17:00 | April 10, 2016 22:15 | 5h 15m | 1,917 | 9,266 |
| 6 | August 15, 2016 20:30 | August 17, 2016 03:15 | 1d 6h | 1,835 | 7,894 |
| 7 | January 1, 2016 12:15 | January 1, 2016 15:00 | 2h 45m | 1,676 | 4,605 |
| 8 | June 29, 2016 14:30 | June 29, 2016 22:30 | 8h | 1,475 | 723 |
| 9 | September 10, 2016 11:00 | September 16, 2016 17:15 | 6d 6h | 1,333 | 13K |
| 10 | November 8, 2016 13:00 | November 9, 2016 02:00 | 13h | 1,184 | 1,964 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 80 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county