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2018 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 20.1 hours, a total of 480K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 277th 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 Fayette 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 | November 27, 2018 01:15 | November 27, 2018 02:30 | 1h 15m | 4,833 | 3,028 |
| 2 | October 21, 2018 02:00 | October 24, 2018 04:00 | 3d 2h | 3,091 | 60K |
| 3 | October 26, 2018 11:45 | October 27, 2018 22:00 | 1d 10h | 2,660 | 1,891 |
| 4 | September 8, 2018 17:00 | September 12, 2018 00:15 | 3d 7h | 1,888 | 20K |
| 5 | September 30, 2018 04:30 | September 30, 2018 09:45 | 5h 15m | 1,886 | 9,898 |
| 6 | July 4, 2018 10:15 | July 8, 2018 17:45 | 4d 7h | 1,856 | 20K |
| 7 | November 15, 2018 08:45 | November 23, 2018 00:00 | 7d 15h | 1,737 | 55K |
| 8 | March 12, 2018 07:45 | March 15, 2018 14:30 | 3d 6h | 1,695 | 25K |
| 9 | April 19, 2018 07:30 | April 24, 2018 20:45 | 5d 13h | 1,623 | 8,335 |
| 10 | September 17, 2018 11:15 | September 17, 2018 15:00 | 3h 45m | 1,525 | 4,960 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 120 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Fayette 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 ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county