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2018 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 362nd 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 Nicholas 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 21, 2018 11:00 | March 24, 2018 03:00 | 2d 16h | 4,159 | 30K |
| 2 | September 10, 2018 22:45 | September 11, 2018 02:15 | 3h 30m | 1,960 | 2,442 |
| 3 | June 2, 2018 06:30 | June 2, 2018 13:45 | 7h 15m | 1,955 | 4,866 |
| 4 | September 30, 2018 04:30 | September 30, 2018 09:45 | 5h 15m | 1,951 | 10K |
| 5 | February 20, 2018 18:00 | February 20, 2018 21:45 | 3h 45m | 1,941 | 1,472 |
| 6 | December 27, 2018 13:00 | December 27, 2018 19:00 | 6h | 1,581 | 6,772 |
| 7 | October 21, 2018 01:45 | October 23, 2018 21:00 | 2d 19h | 1,442 | 20K |
| 8 | June 27, 2018 01:00 | June 27, 2018 08:00 | 7h | 1,408 | 5,887 |
| 9 | August 9, 2018 19:00 | August 10, 2018 03:15 | 8h 15m | 1,359 | 5,819 |
| 10 | December 28, 2018 10:00 | December 29, 2018 06:00 | 20h | 1,340 | 7,469 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 69 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Nicholas 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 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county