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2020 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 650th 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 McDowell 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 | April 13, 2020 02:15 | April 15, 2020 19:15 | 2d 17h | 1,915 | 31K |
| 2 | February 18, 2020 23:30 | February 19, 2020 23:45 | 1d | 903 | 3,334 |
| 3 | April 21, 2020 13:30 | April 22, 2020 04:45 | 15h 15m | 895 | 6,451 |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 05:45 | December 25, 2020 01:00 | 19h 15m | 889 | 3,397 |
| 5 | July 28, 2020 20:45 | July 29, 2020 04:00 | 7h 15m | 887 | 3,318 |
| 6 | July 19, 2020 18:45 | July 19, 2020 19:00 | 15m | 886 | 222 |
| 7 | March 14, 2020 05:30 | March 14, 2020 08:45 | 3h 15m | 877 | 2,850 |
| 8 | June 20, 2020 12:30 | June 20, 2020 19:00 | 6h 30m | 798 | 4,518 |
| 9 | April 28, 2020 16:30 | April 29, 2020 00:00 | 7h 30m | 630 | 2,855 |
| 10 | April 8, 2020 19:45 | April 10, 2020 00:45 | 1d 5h | 597 | 2,331 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 50 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county