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2017 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 30.1 hours, a total of 342K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 174th 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 McDowell 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 13:30 | March 6, 2017 20:45 | 5d 7h | 6,797 | 238K |
| 2 | February 18, 2017 16:45 | February 19, 2017 08:30 | 15h 45m | 1,000 | 8,573 |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 15:30 | May 2, 2017 02:30 | 11h | 1,000 | 4,116 |
| 4 | July 28, 2017 04:45 | July 31, 2017 11:45 | 3d 7h | 910 | 4,370 |
| 5 | March 21, 2017 17:15 | March 22, 2017 00:45 | 7h 30m | 897 | 3,964 |
| 6 | May 16, 2017 19:30 | May 17, 2017 02:30 | 7h | 896 | 2,392 |
| 7 | July 14, 2017 23:00 | July 15, 2017 22:30 | 23h 30m | 894 | 2,864 |
| 8 | September 10, 2017 03:15 | September 10, 2017 20:15 | 17h | 894 | 2,027 |
| 9 | May 19, 2017 14:15 | May 19, 2017 18:30 | 4h 15m | 850 | 672 |
| 10 | May 12, 2017 13:45 | May 12, 2017 18:30 | 4h 45m | 848 | 1,865 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 53 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county