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2018 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 432K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 452nd 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 Putnam 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 | October 26, 2018 17:15 | October 27, 2018 09:15 | 16h | 6,551 | 4,989 |
| 2 | July 31, 2018 14:15 | August 5, 2018 16:00 | 5d 1h | 5,193 | 118K |
| 3 | July 1, 2018 16:45 | July 4, 2018 03:00 | 2d 10h | 3,096 | 23K |
| 4 | March 1, 2018 20:00 | March 4, 2018 02:45 | 2d 6h | 2,894 | 25K |
| 5 | October 21, 2018 00:00 | October 23, 2018 21:00 | 2d 21h | 2,335 | 48K |
| 6 | August 7, 2018 13:00 | August 9, 2018 01:45 | 1d 12h | 1,953 | 6,098 |
| 7 | December 28, 2018 06:15 | December 28, 2018 23:30 | 17h 15m | 1,796 | 8,185 |
| 8 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 21:15 | 18h | 1,401 | 907 |
| 9 | June 27, 2018 03:45 | June 29, 2018 06:45 | 2d 3h | 1,198 | 6,301 |
| 10 | July 13, 2018 19:45 | July 17, 2018 22:45 | 4d 3h | 1,170 | 3,057 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 90 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county