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2017 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 25.2 hours, a total of 371K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 219th 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 Nicholas 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 15:30 | March 6, 2017 03:30 | 4d 12h | 7,534 | 175K |
| 2 | February 25, 2017 11:30 | February 26, 2017 02:00 | 14h 30m | 6,459 | 23K |
| 3 | February 26, 2017 14:00 | February 26, 2017 15:45 | 1h 45m | 4,498 | 1,132 |
| 4 | June 13, 2017 13:15 | June 13, 2017 23:45 | 10h 30m | 3,312 | 9,770 |
| 5 | September 26, 2017 19:15 | September 26, 2017 21:15 | 2h | 3,242 | 4,868 |
| 6 | June 27, 2017 17:00 | June 28, 2017 01:00 | 8h | 2,324 | 5,996 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 15:45 | May 3, 2017 17:15 | 2d 1h | 2,200 | 18K |
| 8 | July 15, 2017 09:30 | July 15, 2017 18:00 | 8h 30m | 2,148 | 4,767 |
| 9 | July 21, 2017 16:45 | July 22, 2017 06:15 | 13h 30m | 2,046 | 7,122 |
| 10 | January 12, 2017 21:30 | January 13, 2017 00:30 | 3h | 1,958 | 5,834 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 60 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2017 | 9.3 hrs | 2.20 | 6.3 hrs | 1.88 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county