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2020 Cabell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cabell County, WV went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 745K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 711th 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 Cabell 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 | August 25, 2020 22:30 | September 2, 2020 02:30 | 7d 4h | 9,156 | 194K |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 22:45 | April 15, 2020 02:30 | 2d 3h | 6,680 | 74K |
| 3 | May 10, 2020 22:00 | May 11, 2020 21:30 | 23h 30m | 5,850 | 12K |
| 4 | September 29, 2020 09:15 | October 2, 2020 05:45 | 2d 20h | 5,386 | 16K |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 12:45 | January 14, 2020 18:45 | 3d 6h | 4,509 | 45K |
| 6 | March 29, 2020 14:45 | March 30, 2020 22:15 | 1d 7h | 3,426 | 10K |
| 7 | July 20, 2020 02:45 | July 22, 2020 04:00 | 2d 1h | 3,049 | 15K |
| 8 | May 8, 2020 18:15 | May 9, 2020 22:00 | 1d 3h | 2,918 | 9,528 |
| 9 | August 17, 2020 06:45 | August 18, 2020 14:00 | 1d 7h | 2,864 | 1,541 |
| 10 | November 15, 2020 05:15 | November 17, 2020 00:45 | 1d 19h | 2,666 | 27K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Cabell 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 ÷ 66,139 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. Cabell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabell 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/cabell-county