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2016 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 42.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 60th 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 Raleigh 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 8, 2016 19:45 | July 10, 2016 10:45 | 1d 15h | 22,865 | 614K |
| 2 | July 10, 2016 12:15 | July 13, 2016 23:15 | 3d 11h | 9,733 | 149K |
| 3 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | July 8, 2016 19:00 | 15d 8h | 4,195 | 65K |
| 4 | May 19, 2016 13:15 | May 19, 2016 16:30 | 3h 15m | 4,050 | 4,079 |
| 5 | April 1, 2016 22:00 | April 4, 2016 19:30 | 2d 21h | 2,585 | 14K |
| 6 | December 7, 2016 14:00 | December 7, 2016 21:00 | 7h | 2,433 | 1,224 |
| 7 | June 2, 2016 18:15 | June 2, 2016 23:30 | 5h 15m | 2,156 | 5,339 |
| 8 | April 11, 2016 18:30 | April 12, 2016 18:30 | 1d | 2,114 | 6,466 |
| 9 | August 22, 2016 12:00 | August 23, 2016 00:45 | 12h 45m | 2,109 | 9,078 |
| 10 | December 29, 2016 17:15 | December 29, 2016 23:00 | 5h 45m | 2,102 | 632 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 117 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Raleigh 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county