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2017 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 229K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 809th 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 Putnam 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 00:00 | March 4, 2017 20:30 | 3d 20h | 6,992 | 76K |
| 2 | October 23, 2017 16:30 | October 25, 2017 15:45 | 1d 23h | 2,245 | 7,103 |
| 3 | October 19, 2017 14:45 | October 19, 2017 19:00 | 4h 15m | 1,854 | 1,028 |
| 4 | October 22, 2017 11:00 | October 22, 2017 17:00 | 6h | 1,694 | 2,155 |
| 5 | March 7, 2017 14:00 | March 9, 2017 04:15 | 1d 14h | 1,547 | 8,486 |
| 6 | January 15, 2017 22:45 | January 16, 2017 19:45 | 21h | 1,503 | 3,293 |
| 7 | February 19, 2017 14:45 | February 19, 2017 20:45 | 6h | 1,459 | 2,994 |
| 8 | July 19, 2017 06:00 | July 20, 2017 18:45 | 1d 12h | 1,431 | 3,506 |
| 9 | June 24, 2017 00:30 | June 29, 2017 01:00 | 5d | 1,424 | 14K |
| 10 | August 28, 2017 12:15 | August 29, 2017 19:30 | 1d 7h | 1,312 | 1,446 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 66 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county