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2020 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 184K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 639th 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 Nicholas 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 10, 2020 03:45 | August 10, 2020 17:45 | 14h | 2,553 | 11K |
| 2 | April 15, 2020 00:15 | April 15, 2020 17:30 | 17h 15m | 2,418 | 18K |
| 3 | July 16, 2020 11:15 | July 16, 2020 17:45 | 6h 30m | 1,962 | 5,396 |
| 4 | August 21, 2020 22:00 | August 22, 2020 06:30 | 8h 30m | 1,955 | 8,314 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 19:00 | November 3, 2020 01:15 | 1d 6h | 1,575 | 10K |
| 6 | May 21, 2020 02:30 | May 21, 2020 19:45 | 17h 15m | 1,571 | 7,130 |
| 7 | January 24, 2020 12:15 | January 24, 2020 22:00 | 9h 45m | 1,457 | 1,041 |
| 8 | April 27, 2020 06:00 | April 27, 2020 13:15 | 7h 15m | 1,346 | 3,859 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 04:00 | April 14, 2020 22:30 | 1d 18h | 1,344 | 16K |
| 10 | June 27, 2020 11:15 | June 27, 2020 19:15 | 8h | 1,283 | 357 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 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 Nicholas 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 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county