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2018 Clay County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Clay County, WV went without power for an average of 57.7 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 109th 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 Clay 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 | February 2, 2018 05:45 | February 2, 2018 11:00 | 5h 15m | 1,081 | 385 |
| 2 | April 16, 2018 15:00 | April 16, 2018 22:00 | 7h | 850 | 2,869 |
| 3 | May 18, 2018 13:30 | May 18, 2018 19:45 | 6h 15m | 780 | 3,900 |
| 4 | September 25, 2018 19:00 | October 1, 2018 18:15 | 5d 23h | 691 | 11K |
| 5 | April 4, 2018 06:00 | April 5, 2018 21:00 | 1d 15h | 677 | 7,896 |
| 6 | March 2, 2018 00:45 | March 4, 2018 18:45 | 2d 18h | 640 | 9,050 |
| 7 | June 11, 2018 13:45 | June 11, 2018 15:45 | 2h | 611 | 1,222 |
| 8 | July 20, 2018 15:15 | July 22, 2018 23:15 | 2d 8h | 610 | 7,460 |
| 9 | March 1, 2018 13:30 | March 1, 2018 20:30 | 7h | 608 | 1,976 |
| 10 | April 15, 2018 19:30 | April 16, 2018 09:15 | 13h 45m | 572 | 4,080 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 52 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Clay 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 2.50 | 7.1 hrs | 2.32 |
| 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 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,463 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county