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2019 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 637th 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 Nicholas 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 | January 16, 2019 18:45 | January 17, 2019 20:30 | 1d 1h | 2,049 | 7,338 |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 15:15 | November 1, 2019 21:30 | 1d 6h | 1,681 | 9,881 |
| 3 | April 5, 2019 07:45 | April 5, 2019 10:15 | 2h 30m | 1,578 | 3,552 |
| 4 | July 2, 2019 19:45 | July 3, 2019 17:45 | 22h | 1,285 | 13K |
| 5 | May 24, 2019 00:30 | May 24, 2019 06:45 | 6h 15m | 1,094 | 4,571 |
| 6 | October 7, 2019 09:45 | October 7, 2019 16:45 | 7h | 1,076 | 2,437 |
| 7 | June 9, 2019 12:00 | June 9, 2019 14:45 | 2h 45m | 979 | 742 |
| 8 | April 7, 2019 06:45 | April 7, 2019 10:00 | 3h 15m | 730 | 1,603 |
| 9 | March 6, 2019 20:30 | March 6, 2019 21:00 | 30m | 729 | 340 |
| 10 | December 5, 2019 13:45 | December 5, 2019 20:45 | 7h | 703 | 1,076 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 55 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Nicholas 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 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county