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2019 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 262K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 757th 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 Putnam 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 07:15 | February 27, 2019 04:30 | 2d 21h | 2,304 | 45K |
| 2 | May 2, 2019 22:00 | May 4, 2019 21:45 | 1d 23h | 2,094 | 11K |
| 3 | June 24, 2019 14:00 | June 27, 2019 00:00 | 2d 10h | 1,818 | 7,857 |
| 4 | January 8, 2019 16:45 | January 10, 2019 02:15 | 1d 9h | 1,808 | 9,831 |
| 5 | December 29, 2019 18:30 | December 30, 2019 22:00 | 1d 3h | 1,687 | 3,866 |
| 6 | December 10, 2019 13:30 | December 10, 2019 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,573 | 4,035 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 13:00 | November 30, 2019 01:45 | 2d 12h | 1,432 | 28K |
| 8 | August 30, 2019 04:45 | August 30, 2019 21:00 | 16h 15m | 1,325 | 2,375 |
| 9 | October 16, 2019 11:00 | October 16, 2019 21:00 | 10h | 1,081 | 4,511 |
| 10 | June 17, 2019 01:15 | June 17, 2019 20:45 | 19h 30m | 898 | 3,057 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 79 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county