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2017 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 21.2 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 257th 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 Kanawha 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 | February 28, 2017 21:15 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 11d 8h | 10,454 | 397K |
| 2 | October 19, 2017 12:45 | October 20, 2017 10:00 | 21h 15m | 7,882 | 4,626 |
| 3 | May 20, 2017 01:15 | May 22, 2017 03:30 | 2d 2h | 6,093 | 30K |
| 4 | June 30, 2017 12:30 | June 30, 2017 21:15 | 8h 45m | 5,076 | 7,942 |
| 5 | June 30, 2017 22:45 | July 1, 2017 03:00 | 4h 15m | 5,047 | 10K |
| 6 | April 27, 2017 11:45 | May 4, 2017 00:15 | 6d 12h | 4,791 | 75K |
| 7 | May 31, 2017 12:00 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 1d 19h | 4,713 | 31K |
| 8 | October 18, 2017 05:15 | October 19, 2017 04:15 | 23h | 4,425 | 1,894 |
| 9 | April 22, 2017 21:45 | April 23, 2017 21:45 | 1d | 4,200 | 28K |
| 10 | June 12, 2017 03:30 | June 20, 2017 19:30 | 8d 16h | 4,143 | 63K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 93 reached 100+ customers, 40 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county