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2020 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 32.7 hours, a total of 386K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 250th 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 Lincoln 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 | March 29, 2020 10:45 | March 31, 2020 17:15 | 2d 6h | 2,826 | 19K |
| 2 | April 8, 2020 15:45 | April 10, 2020 23:30 | 2d 7h | 2,731 | 37K |
| 3 | August 29, 2020 05:15 | August 31, 2020 00:00 | 1d 18h | 2,621 | 5,867 |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 05:45 | January 15, 2020 02:30 | 3d 20h | 1,965 | 23K |
| 5 | October 4, 2020 13:30 | October 4, 2020 20:30 | 7h | 1,933 | 14K |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 22:15 | July 4, 2020 19:45 | 2d 21h | 1,864 | 6,589 |
| 7 | October 25, 2020 02:30 | October 26, 2020 00:15 | 21h 45m | 1,454 | 11K |
| 8 | July 22, 2020 21:30 | July 24, 2020 17:30 | 1d 20h | 1,429 | 6,548 |
| 9 | October 11, 2020 12:30 | October 11, 2020 15:45 | 3h 15m | 1,429 | 3,217 |
| 10 | February 19, 2020 13:30 | February 20, 2020 15:30 | 1d 2h | 1,356 | 4,580 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 81 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county