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2020 Clay County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, WV went without power for an average of 64.7 hours, a total of 159K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 119th 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 Clay 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 22:15 | August 28, 2020 16:00 | 2d 17h | 1,546 | 30K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 19:30 | January 13, 2020 21:15 | 2d 1h | 1,465 | 13K |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 09:45 | April 9, 2020 05:00 | 19h 15m | 1,277 | 7,872 |
| 4 | May 20, 2020 11:45 | May 20, 2020 18:15 | 6h 30m | 833 | 3,725 |
| 5 | June 30, 2020 11:30 | June 30, 2020 17:45 | 6h 15m | 793 | 4,910 |
| 6 | March 28, 2020 12:45 | March 28, 2020 22:15 | 9h 30m | 787 | 3,969 |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 21:30 | November 12, 2020 17:30 | 20h | 782 | 1,253 |
| 8 | August 29, 2020 04:15 | August 30, 2020 01:00 | 20h 45m | 609 | 3,040 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 09:30 | May 31, 2020 19:00 | 3d 9h | 602 | 4,087 |
| 10 | April 29, 2020 14:45 | April 30, 2020 19:30 | 1d 4h | 600 | 2,594 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Clay 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 2.51 | 6.8 hrs | 2.18 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,463 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county