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2020 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 330K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 601st 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 Fayette 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 | November 15, 2020 11:15 | November 16, 2020 22:15 | 1d 11h | 5,606 | 14K |
| 2 | April 21, 2020 16:00 | April 23, 2020 00:15 | 1d 8h | 5,279 | 8,540 |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 22:45 | April 15, 2020 20:15 | 2d 21h | 5,006 | 77K |
| 4 | March 18, 2020 05:15 | March 18, 2020 19:45 | 14h 30m | 4,586 | 4,287 |
| 5 | September 16, 2020 13:00 | September 16, 2020 20:15 | 7h 15m | 2,504 | 728 |
| 6 | March 31, 2020 14:15 | March 31, 2020 22:00 | 7h 45m | 1,632 | 1,520 |
| 7 | August 13, 2020 22:15 | August 14, 2020 17:15 | 19h | 1,598 | 11K |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 19:45 | December 25, 2020 19:15 | 23h 30m | 1,520 | 1,230 |
| 9 | August 14, 2020 18:45 | August 17, 2020 05:45 | 2d 11h | 1,196 | 7,461 |
| 10 | August 23, 2020 01:15 | August 23, 2020 10:45 | 9h 30m | 1,185 | 5,601 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 99 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 Fayette 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 ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county