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2018 Cabell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cabell County, WV went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 675K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 536th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cabell County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 26, 2018 12:30 | October 27, 2018 02:00 | 13h 30m | 18,220 | 33K |
| 2 | July 31, 2018 15:30 | August 5, 2018 20:15 | 5d 4h | 5,421 | 115K |
| 3 | June 30, 2018 00:15 | July 11, 2018 01:00 | 11d | 3,531 | 60K |
| 4 | December 6, 2018 18:00 | December 7, 2018 01:30 | 7h 30m | 3,304 | 1,932 |
| 5 | May 30, 2018 19:45 | June 1, 2018 21:15 | 2d 1h | 3,173 | 16K |
| 6 | July 20, 2018 12:15 | July 22, 2018 00:00 | 1d 11h | 2,763 | 32K |
| 7 | February 19, 2018 04:45 | February 20, 2018 21:15 | 1d 16h | 2,563 | 11K |
| 8 | August 6, 2018 12:15 | August 7, 2018 02:15 | 14h | 2,476 | 4,418 |
| 9 | June 20, 2018 18:00 | June 24, 2018 18:45 | 4d | 2,353 | 20K |
| 10 | September 9, 2018 11:30 | September 11, 2018 23:00 | 2d 11h | 2,102 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 130 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cabell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 66,139 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. Cabell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabell County, WV annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/west-virginia/cabell-county