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2020 Ohio County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ohio County, WV went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 291K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 878th 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 Ohio 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 28, 2020 21:15 | March 31, 2020 16:45 | 2d 19h | 4,226 | 34K |
| 2 | January 25, 2020 01:45 | January 25, 2020 16:00 | 14h 15m | 3,654 | 4,831 |
| 3 | October 17, 2020 11:45 | October 17, 2020 16:00 | 4h 15m | 2,962 | 8,897 |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 18:15 | November 19, 2020 01:45 | 3d 7h | 2,789 | 46K |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 13:30 | November 3, 2020 23:45 | 2d 10h | 2,540 | 17K |
| 6 | July 21, 2020 18:15 | July 23, 2020 01:30 | 1d 7h | 1,995 | 16K |
| 7 | January 16, 2020 06:30 | January 16, 2020 19:15 | 12h 45m | 1,919 | 2,067 |
| 8 | February 27, 2020 01:15 | February 27, 2020 09:45 | 8h 30m | 1,388 | 1,448 |
| 9 | November 8, 2020 01:15 | November 8, 2020 06:00 | 4h 45m | 1,288 | 1,990 |
| 10 | April 26, 2020 13:45 | April 27, 2020 18:15 | 1d 4h | 1,244 | 4,751 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 90 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Ohio 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 ÷ 32,858 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. Ohio County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ohio 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/ohio-county