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2018 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 27.3 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 204th 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 Kanawha 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 20, 2018 06:15 | October 31, 2018 03:30 | 10d 21h | 14,878 | 252K |
| 2 | June 17, 2018 23:00 | July 9, 2018 02:30 | 21d 3h | 8,514 | 330K |
| 3 | May 26, 2018 03:45 | June 5, 2018 01:15 | 9d 21h | 5,008 | 94K |
| 4 | February 20, 2018 23:45 | March 4, 2018 02:45 | 11d 3h | 4,678 | 97K |
| 5 | July 26, 2018 21:45 | August 11, 2018 00:45 | 15d 3h | 3,682 | 82K |
| 6 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | July 26, 2018 20:30 | 7d 20h | 3,678 | 115K |
| 7 | August 30, 2018 11:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 15d 10h | 3,417 | 109K |
| 8 | June 10, 2018 16:15 | June 13, 2018 03:45 | 2d 11h | 3,139 | 10K |
| 9 | September 19, 2018 23:30 | October 3, 2018 00:00 | 13d | 3,036 | 89K |
| 10 | March 11, 2018 16:45 | March 13, 2018 23:00 | 2d 6h | 2,851 | 28K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 101 reached 100+ customers, 42 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county