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2019 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 30.9 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 109th 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 Kanawha 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 | June 24, 2019 00:15 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 14d 2h | 21,769 | 666K |
| 2 | October 30, 2019 11:45 | November 6, 2019 04:00 | 6d 16h | 11,268 | 153K |
| 3 | May 15, 2019 12:15 | May 16, 2019 20:15 | 1d 8h | 9,425 | 62K |
| 4 | May 18, 2019 02:15 | May 24, 2019 22:45 | 6d 20h | 7,221 | 64K |
| 5 | February 24, 2019 03:15 | March 3, 2019 04:30 | 7d 1h | 6,339 | 171K |
| 6 | May 16, 2019 21:00 | May 18, 2019 01:15 | 1d 4h | 6,316 | 12K |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 03:45 | December 5, 2019 03:15 | 7d 23h | 5,563 | 64K |
| 8 | May 26, 2019 10:15 | June 5, 2019 04:30 | 9d 18h | 4,944 | 52K |
| 9 | January 5, 2019 03:30 | January 5, 2019 22:30 | 19h | 4,366 | 19K |
| 10 | September 17, 2019 12:30 | September 21, 2019 03:00 | 3d 14h | 4,339 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 112 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county