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2019 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 30.5 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 111th 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 Ritchie 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 | April 6, 2019 16:45 | April 6, 2019 18:00 | 1h 15m | 6,194 | 7,743 |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 14:15 | March 1, 2019 20:15 | 5d 6h | 1,650 | 50K |
| 3 | August 8, 2019 21:30 | August 11, 2019 01:45 | 2d 4h | 1,386 | 24K |
| 4 | November 27, 2019 17:00 | November 29, 2019 19:00 | 2d 2h | 1,195 | 12K |
| 5 | February 5, 2019 10:45 | February 5, 2019 13:15 | 2h 30m | 592 | 923 |
| 6 | December 30, 2019 10:00 | December 30, 2019 13:45 | 3h 45m | 585 | 1,040 |
| 7 | August 21, 2019 01:00 | August 22, 2019 03:30 | 1d 2h | 534 | 4,014 |
| 8 | May 12, 2019 09:45 | May 12, 2019 16:30 | 6h 45m | 531 | 2,527 |
| 9 | November 12, 2019 01:45 | November 12, 2019 08:30 | 6h 45m | 483 | 1,825 |
| 10 | May 26, 2019 20:45 | May 28, 2019 01:15 | 1d 4h | 479 | 2,839 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 46 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county