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2016 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 32.8 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 90th 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 Ritchie 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 | April 2, 2016 22:45 | April 4, 2016 16:00 | 1d 17h | 2,980 | 36K |
| 2 | August 16, 2016 22:15 | August 18, 2016 00:15 | 1d 2h | 2,698 | 20K |
| 3 | February 9, 2016 05:30 | February 11, 2016 00:00 | 1d 18h | 1,428 | 13K |
| 4 | February 28, 2016 20:00 | February 29, 2016 01:30 | 5h 30m | 1,328 | 7,234 |
| 5 | March 1, 2016 23:15 | March 2, 2016 22:15 | 23h | 1,212 | 18K |
| 6 | April 12, 2016 22:30 | April 13, 2016 00:00 | 1h 30m | 1,166 | 1,747 |
| 7 | December 18, 2016 07:30 | December 19, 2016 18:15 | 1d 10h | 1,110 | 9,302 |
| 8 | August 15, 2016 19:15 | August 15, 2016 19:45 | 30m | 1,102 | 551 |
| 9 | October 30, 2016 22:15 | October 31, 2016 07:45 | 9h 30m | 1,036 | 3,512 |
| 10 | November 29, 2016 04:00 | November 29, 2016 12:45 | 8h 45m | 962 | 1,282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 48 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county