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2018 Monroe County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Monroe County, WV went without power for an average of 35.8 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 166th 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 Monroe 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 | July 18, 2018 13:45 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 9h 30m | 4,283 | 16K |
| 2 | March 21, 2018 04:00 | March 29, 2018 01:15 | 7d 21h | 2,274 | 69K |
| 3 | August 13, 2018 13:30 | August 13, 2018 18:00 | 4h 30m | 2,169 | 7,053 |
| 4 | June 22, 2018 00:15 | June 22, 2018 05:15 | 5h | 886 | 2,443 |
| 5 | November 2, 2018 00:15 | November 2, 2018 16:00 | 15h 45m | 550 | 2,374 |
| 6 | April 15, 2018 15:30 | April 15, 2018 23:15 | 7h 45m | 482 | 1,449 |
| 7 | September 17, 2018 11:15 | September 18, 2018 21:00 | 1d 9h | 464 | 1,012 |
| 8 | November 15, 2018 09:30 | November 18, 2018 21:00 | 3d 11h | 441 | 13K |
| 9 | December 15, 2018 06:15 | December 15, 2018 13:15 | 7h | 389 | 1,561 |
| 10 | October 21, 2018 03:15 | October 22, 2018 23:30 | 1d 20h | 350 | 2,167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Monroe 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 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
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 ÷ 3,829 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county