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2020 Boone County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Boone County, WV went without power for an average of 25.0 hours, a total of 327K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 346th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Boone County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 26, 2020 16:00 | July 26, 2020 23:15 | 7h 15m | 2,049 | 5,633 |
| 2 | June 6, 2020 21:15 | June 8, 2020 07:15 | 1d 10h | 1,607 | 14K |
| 3 | October 11, 2020 21:45 | October 12, 2020 00:15 | 2h 30m | 1,238 | 345 |
| 4 | September 26, 2020 06:30 | September 26, 2020 17:15 | 10h 45m | 1,227 | 13K |
| 5 | September 26, 2020 18:30 | September 26, 2020 23:00 | 4h 30m | 1,227 | 5,522 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 00:00 | April 15, 2020 22:15 | 2d 22h | 1,221 | 37K |
| 7 | July 28, 2020 04:15 | July 29, 2020 02:00 | 21h 45m | 1,189 | 9,249 |
| 8 | May 18, 2020 22:30 | May 20, 2020 21:00 | 1d 22h | 1,167 | 5,441 |
| 9 | May 3, 2020 11:45 | May 4, 2020 02:30 | 14h 45m | 1,164 | 4,356 |
| 10 | February 21, 2020 09:45 | February 21, 2020 16:15 | 6h 30m | 1,161 | 6,301 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 97 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Boone County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,090 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. Boone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Boone County, WV annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/west-virginia/boone-county