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2019 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 19.6 hours, a total of 497K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 221st 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 Raleigh 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 | March 26, 2019 09:00 | March 28, 2019 00:00 | 1d 15h | 8,625 | 59K |
| 2 | November 11, 2019 14:00 | November 12, 2019 02:00 | 12h | 6,741 | 14K |
| 3 | August 29, 2019 12:15 | August 29, 2019 16:00 | 3h 45m | 5,094 | 2,857 |
| 4 | September 23, 2019 23:00 | September 24, 2019 05:00 | 6h | 4,253 | 15K |
| 5 | May 19, 2019 06:45 | May 19, 2019 09:30 | 2h 45m | 4,100 | 10K |
| 6 | February 24, 2019 06:30 | February 28, 2019 02:45 | 3d 20h | 3,245 | 53K |
| 7 | October 30, 2019 13:00 | November 2, 2019 19:30 | 3d 6h | 3,122 | 45K |
| 8 | January 22, 2019 15:15 | January 23, 2019 00:15 | 9h | 2,307 | 7,814 |
| 9 | February 15, 2019 04:45 | February 15, 2019 05:45 | 1h | 2,199 | 1,548 |
| 10 | May 26, 2019 23:30 | May 28, 2019 00:45 | 1d 1h | 1,868 | 8,456 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 134 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Raleigh 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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county