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2017 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 21.7 hours, a total of 549K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 253rd 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 Raleigh 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 12:45 | March 6, 2017 01:15 | 4d 12h | 6,974 | 258K |
| 2 | December 6, 2017 14:00 | December 7, 2017 02:45 | 12h 45m | 3,848 | 4,935 |
| 3 | June 13, 2017 13:30 | June 14, 2017 20:15 | 1d 6h | 3,048 | 9,780 |
| 4 | June 5, 2017 06:00 | June 6, 2017 17:45 | 1d 11h | 2,853 | 32K |
| 5 | August 4, 2017 13:30 | August 4, 2017 22:45 | 9h 15m | 1,741 | 9,965 |
| 6 | July 5, 2017 20:15 | July 6, 2017 09:30 | 13h 15m | 1,637 | 12K |
| 7 | April 8, 2017 01:00 | April 8, 2017 02:30 | 1h 30m | 1,620 | 2,430 |
| 8 | April 8, 2017 03:45 | April 8, 2017 04:00 | 15m | 1,620 | 405 |
| 9 | March 31, 2017 12:15 | April 1, 2017 00:30 | 12h 15m | 1,584 | 6,121 |
| 10 | March 31, 2017 08:00 | March 31, 2017 11:00 | 3h | 1,578 | 4,343 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 103 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Raleigh 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county