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2018 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 18.9 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 298th 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 Ritchie 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 | August 7, 2018 05:15 | August 7, 2018 23:15 | 18h | 1,684 | 17K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 00:15 | March 3, 2018 20:30 | 1d 20h | 1,582 | 9,308 |
| 3 | February 17, 2018 21:45 | February 19, 2018 02:45 | 1d 5h | 875 | 6,940 |
| 4 | August 29, 2018 23:30 | August 30, 2018 16:15 | 16h 45m | 813 | 9,974 |
| 5 | July 2, 2018 01:30 | July 2, 2018 18:00 | 16h 30m | 692 | 3,272 |
| 6 | May 22, 2018 13:15 | May 22, 2018 22:45 | 9h 30m | 644 | 4,334 |
| 7 | February 16, 2018 06:45 | February 16, 2018 23:30 | 16h 45m | 636 | 2,019 |
| 8 | July 7, 2018 16:15 | July 7, 2018 17:30 | 1h 15m | 486 | 608 |
| 9 | May 5, 2018 15:45 | May 5, 2018 19:45 | 4h | 484 | 1,492 |
| 10 | July 5, 2018 23:45 | July 6, 2018 13:30 | 13h 45m | 379 | 2,665 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 41 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county