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2017 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 42.1 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 104th 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 Fayette 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 11:30 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 10d 18h | 17,254 | 671K |
| 2 | March 12, 2017 07:00 | March 17, 2017 23:45 | 5d 16h | 4,880 | 44K |
| 3 | October 23, 2017 04:00 | October 25, 2017 15:00 | 2d 11h | 4,656 | 15K |
| 4 | March 18, 2017 21:15 | March 19, 2017 12:45 | 15h 30m | 4,440 | 2,750 |
| 5 | April 4, 2017 06:15 | April 15, 2017 12:00 | 11d 5h | 4,321 | 7,529 |
| 6 | May 23, 2017 18:00 | May 23, 2017 19:00 | 1h | 4,000 | 2,000 |
| 7 | October 28, 2017 19:15 | October 28, 2017 22:30 | 3h 15m | 3,937 | 5,187 |
| 8 | May 12, 2017 10:15 | May 14, 2017 06:00 | 1d 19h | 2,878 | 24K |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 15:30 | May 4, 2017 01:45 | 2d 10h | 2,624 | 22K |
| 10 | June 23, 2017 03:30 | June 25, 2017 20:45 | 2d 17h | 2,200 | 24K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 91 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Fayette 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 |
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 ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county