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2017 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 43.4 hours, a total of 513K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 95th 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 Lincoln 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 | May 1, 2017 15:00 | May 3, 2017 20:15 | 2d 5h | 3,822 | 22K |
| 2 | July 22, 2017 18:00 | July 24, 2017 14:30 | 1d 20h | 3,600 | 21K |
| 3 | July 7, 2017 21:15 | July 9, 2017 18:45 | 1d 21h | 2,680 | 9,960 |
| 4 | May 24, 2017 18:15 | May 26, 2017 21:45 | 2d 3h | 2,555 | 22K |
| 5 | August 3, 2017 18:45 | August 5, 2017 02:15 | 1d 7h | 2,479 | 12K |
| 6 | April 10, 2017 17:15 | April 12, 2017 17:15 | 2d | 2,473 | 14K |
| 7 | October 15, 2017 12:45 | October 15, 2017 20:45 | 8h | 2,471 | 15K |
| 8 | November 21, 2017 16:30 | November 21, 2017 20:15 | 3h 45m | 2,454 | 2,467 |
| 9 | March 1, 2017 13:30 | March 9, 2017 15:30 | 8d 2h | 2,227 | 80K |
| 10 | August 11, 2017 05:30 | August 11, 2017 13:00 | 7h 30m | 2,017 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 86 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county