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2020 Marshall County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Marshall County, WV went without power for an average of 20.8 hours, a total of 428K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 414th 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 Marshall 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 13:30 | November 19, 2020 19:30 | 4d 6h | 4,536 | 125K |
| 2 | March 28, 2020 21:15 | March 31, 2020 22:15 | 3d 1h | 3,358 | 51K |
| 3 | January 20, 2020 18:00 | January 20, 2020 22:30 | 4h 30m | 3,267 | 8,320 |
| 4 | August 25, 2020 19:30 | August 27, 2020 19:00 | 1d 23h | 2,576 | 23K |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 15:30 | November 4, 2020 17:15 | 3d 1h | 2,467 | 36K |
| 6 | June 10, 2020 19:45 | June 12, 2020 04:00 | 1d 8h | 2,158 | 9,604 |
| 7 | February 11, 2020 15:00 | February 12, 2020 03:30 | 12h 30m | 1,412 | 3,850 |
| 8 | July 10, 2020 20:45 | July 12, 2020 22:30 | 2d 1h | 1,343 | 9,546 |
| 9 | February 24, 2020 00:15 | February 24, 2020 06:30 | 6h 15m | 1,318 | 6,958 |
| 10 | April 16, 2020 05:00 | April 16, 2020 23:00 | 18h | 1,137 | 8,025 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 65 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Marshall 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2020 | 14.0 hrs | 2.51 | 10.0 hrs | 2.25 |
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 ÷ 20,592 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. Marshall County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marshall 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/marshall-county