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2018 Ohio County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ohio County, WV went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 302K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 612th 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 Ohio 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 16, 2018 11:00 | July 17, 2018 17:15 | 1d 6h | 3,672 | 35K |
| 2 | January 11, 2018 19:15 | January 11, 2018 23:15 | 4h | 2,810 | 5,237 |
| 3 | July 4, 2018 23:15 | July 7, 2018 11:30 | 2d 12h | 2,346 | 28K |
| 4 | June 21, 2018 00:15 | June 25, 2018 00:00 | 3d 23h | 2,067 | 17K |
| 5 | September 8, 2018 10:00 | September 11, 2018 19:15 | 3d 9h | 2,059 | 22K |
| 6 | December 28, 2018 05:30 | December 29, 2018 05:15 | 23h 45m | 1,603 | 7,945 |
| 7 | August 17, 2018 20:00 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 15h | 1,489 | 3,081 |
| 8 | June 17, 2018 10:30 | June 20, 2018 21:30 | 3d 11h | 1,400 | 7,550 |
| 9 | May 12, 2018 19:30 | May 16, 2018 00:45 | 3d 5h | 1,286 | 11K |
| 10 | April 15, 2018 20:00 | April 15, 2018 21:15 | 1h 15m | 1,283 | 1,082 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 95 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 Ohio 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2018 | 12.4 hrs | 2.89 | 11.6 hrs | 2.80 |
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 ÷ 32,858 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. Ohio County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ohio 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/ohio-county