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2018 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 24.9 hours, a total of 282K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 226th 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 McDowell 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 24, 2018 19:45 | March 31, 2018 23:30 | 7d 3h | 4,048 | 145K |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 10:15 | November 19, 2018 00:30 | 3d 14h | 1,384 | 14K |
| 3 | May 26, 2018 17:45 | May 26, 2018 21:00 | 3h 15m | 907 | 2,495 |
| 4 | June 21, 2018 17:00 | June 25, 2018 11:45 | 3d 18h | 858 | 5,796 |
| 5 | April 4, 2018 06:45 | April 5, 2018 20:15 | 1d 13h | 854 | 5,608 |
| 6 | June 26, 2018 20:15 | June 28, 2018 17:00 | 1d 20h | 829 | 11K |
| 7 | September 23, 2018 13:45 | September 24, 2018 04:30 | 14h 45m | 744 | 7,629 |
| 8 | June 25, 2018 19:45 | June 26, 2018 06:15 | 10h 30m | 717 | 3,855 |
| 9 | April 20, 2018 20:45 | April 21, 2018 22:45 | 1d 2h | 703 | 4,799 |
| 10 | November 11, 2018 14:00 | November 11, 2018 22:30 | 8h 30m | 689 | 4,951 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 47 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county