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2019 Clay County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Clay County, WV went without power for an average of 95.1 hours, a total of 234K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 27th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clay County, 2019
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 31, 2019 18:15 | November 3, 2019 00:30 | 2d 6h | 1,772 | 28K |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 05:30 | February 28, 2019 22:45 | 4d 17h | 1,289 | 32K |
| 3 | May 20, 2019 21:00 | May 20, 2019 22:15 | 1h 15m | 1,270 | 1,271 |
| 4 | August 6, 2019 21:30 | August 7, 2019 20:30 | 23h | 1,265 | 9,591 |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 12:45 | November 28, 2019 21:15 | 1d 8h | 1,100 | 7,810 |
| 6 | March 31, 2019 13:45 | March 31, 2019 14:30 | 45m | 1,053 | 528 |
| 7 | June 24, 2019 17:15 | June 27, 2019 18:45 | 3d 1h | 1,032 | 22K |
| 8 | July 21, 2019 20:00 | July 23, 2019 21:45 | 2d 1h | 841 | 13K |
| 9 | May 30, 2019 18:45 | May 31, 2019 23:15 | 1d 4h | 808 | 3,918 |
| 10 | July 2, 2019 19:30 | July 3, 2019 20:45 | 1d 1h | 807 | 6,827 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 57 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Clay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,463 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay County, WV annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/west-virginia/clay-county