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2018 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 42.4 hours, a total of 501K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 138th 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 Lincoln 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 | March 12, 2018 09:15 | March 14, 2018 06:45 | 1d 21h | 6,146 | 90K |
| 2 | February 21, 2018 14:15 | February 22, 2018 20:30 | 1d 6h | 2,724 | 6,970 |
| 3 | November 6, 2018 08:00 | November 7, 2018 15:00 | 1d 7h | 2,627 | 31K |
| 4 | September 9, 2018 13:45 | September 12, 2018 14:00 | 3d | 2,450 | 61K |
| 5 | October 20, 2018 08:45 | October 23, 2018 01:45 | 2d 17h | 1,941 | 36K |
| 6 | July 20, 2018 18:00 | July 24, 2018 22:45 | 4d 4h | 1,534 | 51K |
| 7 | March 26, 2018 23:30 | March 29, 2018 18:45 | 2d 19h | 1,199 | 9,649 |
| 8 | March 16, 2018 13:30 | March 20, 2018 15:15 | 4d 1h | 1,191 | 2,633 |
| 9 | January 12, 2018 23:30 | January 13, 2018 22:00 | 22h 30m | 1,188 | 2,463 |
| 10 | October 13, 2018 06:45 | October 15, 2018 17:15 | 2d 10h | 1,171 | 7,172 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 89 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county