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2020 Monroe County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Monroe County, WV went without power for an average of 14.2 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 584th 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 Monroe 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 19:15 | March 30, 2020 02:30 | 7h 15m | 2,890 | 3,307 |
| 2 | July 30, 2020 12:00 | July 30, 2020 15:00 | 3h | 1,567 | 4,693 |
| 3 | May 11, 2020 05:30 | May 11, 2020 07:15 | 1h 45m | 1,152 | 2,016 |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 19:30 | April 10, 2020 04:30 | 1d 9h | 1,054 | 4,713 |
| 5 | May 19, 2020 21:00 | May 20, 2020 22:30 | 1d 1h | 998 | 3,633 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 21:45 | January 12, 2020 00:00 | 2h 15m | 487 | 251 |
| 7 | April 26, 2020 22:30 | April 27, 2020 00:15 | 1h 45m | 481 | 652 |
| 8 | April 13, 2020 06:30 | April 14, 2020 02:45 | 20h 15m | 472 | 1,738 |
| 9 | April 29, 2020 23:45 | April 30, 2020 18:00 | 18h 15m | 356 | 1,867 |
| 10 | July 19, 2020 13:00 | July 19, 2020 22:15 | 9h 15m | 326 | 1,510 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Monroe 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 2.51 | 6.8 hrs | 2.18 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
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 ÷ 3,829 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county