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2019 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 545th 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 McDowell 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 | August 17, 2019 04:30 | August 17, 2019 08:15 | 3h 45m | 2,391 | 7,136 |
| 2 | June 29, 2019 00:15 | June 29, 2019 09:30 | 9h 15m | 1,242 | 6,094 |
| 3 | May 29, 2019 11:45 | May 31, 2019 18:00 | 2d 6h | 933 | 9,623 |
| 4 | February 20, 2019 17:00 | February 21, 2019 03:45 | 10h 45m | 892 | 3,176 |
| 5 | May 20, 2019 21:00 | May 21, 2019 18:15 | 21h 15m | 880 | 3,356 |
| 6 | February 24, 2019 03:45 | February 26, 2019 22:15 | 2d 18h | 803 | 14K |
| 7 | November 12, 2019 06:15 | November 12, 2019 09:00 | 2h 45m | 787 | 2,164 |
| 8 | September 22, 2019 14:45 | September 22, 2019 19:30 | 4h 45m | 671 | 304 |
| 9 | October 11, 2019 13:15 | October 12, 2019 19:30 | 1d 6h | 669 | 1,617 |
| 10 | March 6, 2019 18:15 | March 6, 2019 20:00 | 1h 45m | 663 | 831 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 46 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county