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2020 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 25.4 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 335th 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 Kanawha 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 22, 2020 21:45 | August 31, 2020 03:00 | 8d 5h | 8,651 | 142K |
| 2 | July 20, 2020 11:15 | July 25, 2020 18:30 | 5d 7h | 6,947 | 105K |
| 3 | July 5, 2020 01:30 | July 17, 2020 02:00 | 12d | 6,847 | 148K |
| 4 | April 11, 2020 09:00 | April 16, 2020 21:30 | 5d 12h | 5,680 | 87K |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 10:00 | January 18, 2020 18:15 | 7d 8h | 5,267 | 99K |
| 6 | March 28, 2020 03:00 | April 2, 2020 00:45 | 4d 21h | 4,919 | 47K |
| 7 | May 25, 2020 20:30 | May 31, 2020 23:15 | 6d 2h | 3,891 | 92K |
| 8 | August 9, 2020 04:45 | August 17, 2020 04:45 | 8d | 3,524 | 30K |
| 9 | September 28, 2020 08:15 | October 1, 2020 04:00 | 2d 19h | 3,393 | 13K |
| 10 | May 10, 2020 11:15 | May 13, 2020 02:30 | 2d 15h | 3,282 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 137 reached 100+ customers, 52 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county