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2017 Mason County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mason County, WV went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 804th 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 Mason 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 4, 2017 16:30 | 3d 19h | 2,221 | 26K |
| 2 | October 8, 2017 23:15 | October 9, 2017 23:15 | 1d | 1,811 | 7,001 |
| 3 | April 29, 2017 04:45 | May 3, 2017 03:00 | 3d 22h | 916 | 6,673 |
| 4 | February 25, 2017 07:30 | February 25, 2017 19:00 | 11h 30m | 865 | 7,597 |
| 5 | October 15, 2017 22:00 | October 16, 2017 16:15 | 18h 15m | 669 | 1,838 |
| 6 | July 29, 2017 00:45 | July 29, 2017 13:15 | 12h 30m | 632 | 2,164 |
| 7 | August 16, 2017 12:30 | August 16, 2017 22:00 | 9h 30m | 619 | 2,801 |
| 8 | April 16, 2017 20:30 | April 16, 2017 23:15 | 2h 45m | 551 | 1,240 |
| 9 | October 8, 2017 09:15 | October 8, 2017 18:30 | 9h 15m | 485 | 1,047 |
| 10 | September 13, 2017 15:00 | September 14, 2017 00:15 | 9h 15m | 475 | 2,385 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 48 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Mason 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 ÷ 14,979 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. Mason County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mason 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/mason-county