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2018 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 43.3 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 134th 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 Raleigh 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 | November 15, 2018 07:30 | December 7, 2018 20:15 | 22d 12h | 9,517 | 506K |
| 2 | October 19, 2018 19:30 | October 24, 2018 02:00 | 4d 6h | 5,566 | 173K |
| 3 | March 12, 2018 09:00 | March 14, 2018 23:15 | 2d 14h | 4,416 | 102K |
| 4 | September 7, 2018 17:45 | September 11, 2018 05:45 | 3d 12h | 2,554 | 15K |
| 5 | February 1, 2018 20:00 | February 2, 2018 16:00 | 20h | 2,101 | 6,252 |
| 6 | July 11, 2018 21:45 | July 12, 2018 21:15 | 23h 30m | 1,818 | 2,873 |
| 7 | August 7, 2018 09:00 | August 8, 2018 20:15 | 1d 11h | 1,735 | 18K |
| 8 | December 11, 2018 00:15 | December 12, 2018 11:15 | 1d 11h | 1,692 | 6,323 |
| 9 | April 10, 2018 04:30 | April 10, 2018 13:15 | 8h 45m | 1,669 | 486 |
| 10 | April 10, 2018 14:00 | April 10, 2018 15:00 | 1h | 1,661 | 832 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 113 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Raleigh 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county