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2017 Clay County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clay County, WV went without power for an average of 108.0 hours, a total of 266K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 11th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clay County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1, 2017 15:15 | March 6, 2017 00:00 | 4d 8h | 3,096 | 103K |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 17:00 | May 3, 2017 21:45 | 2d 4h | 1,705 | 13K |
| 3 | October 5, 2017 12:45 | October 5, 2017 18:15 | 5h 30m | 1,218 | 6,648 |
| 4 | May 20, 2017 02:15 | May 20, 2017 23:00 | 20h 45m | 1,055 | 3,781 |
| 5 | December 5, 2017 01:30 | December 5, 2017 04:00 | 2h 30m | 1,046 | 270 |
| 6 | January 21, 2017 13:45 | January 21, 2017 16:45 | 3h | 1,039 | 3,097 |
| 7 | July 2, 2017 09:30 | July 3, 2017 05:15 | 19h 45m | 806 | 7,852 |
| 8 | July 17, 2017 23:45 | July 18, 2017 04:15 | 4h 30m | 789 | 3,417 |
| 9 | September 9, 2017 04:15 | September 9, 2017 16:00 | 11h 45m | 778 | 8,938 |
| 10 | January 25, 2017 14:30 | January 25, 2017 18:00 | 3h 30m | 698 | 2,443 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 56 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Clay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2017 | 9.3 hrs | 2.20 | 6.3 hrs | 1.88 |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,463 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay County, WV annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/west-virginia/clay-county