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2019 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 37.3 hours, a total of 441K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 85th 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 Lincoln 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 | February 24, 2019 06:15 | February 27, 2019 19:15 | 3d 13h | 3,006 | 44K |
| 2 | May 18, 2019 02:15 | May 21, 2019 17:45 | 3d 15h | 2,909 | 18K |
| 3 | May 17, 2019 22:45 | May 18, 2019 01:15 | 2h 30m | 2,621 | 2,580 |
| 4 | July 21, 2019 22:45 | July 24, 2019 12:30 | 2d 13h | 2,621 | 18K |
| 5 | June 27, 2019 22:30 | June 28, 2019 02:00 | 3h 30m | 2,613 | 7,112 |
| 6 | March 30, 2019 17:30 | March 31, 2019 21:45 | 1d 4h | 2,487 | 17K |
| 7 | April 25, 2019 21:15 | April 27, 2019 03:45 | 1d 6h | 2,487 | 25K |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 17:15 | November 3, 2019 05:00 | 2d 11h | 2,070 | 6,365 |
| 9 | January 8, 2019 17:00 | January 9, 2019 22:45 | 1d 5h | 2,013 | 10K |
| 10 | June 24, 2019 20:15 | June 27, 2019 16:30 | 2d 20h | 1,990 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 97 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Lincoln 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 |
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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county