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2020 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 329K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 839th 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 Putnam 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 9, 2020 05:15 | April 11, 2020 17:00 | 2d 11h | 5,414 | 47K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 16:45 | January 15, 2020 02:30 | 3d 9h | 4,600 | 53K |
| 3 | May 20, 2020 10:45 | May 22, 2020 01:15 | 1d 14h | 2,669 | 13K |
| 4 | April 18, 2020 11:00 | April 19, 2020 02:15 | 15h 15m | 1,789 | 4,973 |
| 5 | July 22, 2020 11:15 | July 22, 2020 17:00 | 5h 45m | 1,677 | 3,600 |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 21:15 | August 30, 2020 20:30 | 4d 23h | 1,519 | 29K |
| 7 | April 29, 2020 14:45 | May 1, 2020 20:15 | 2d 5h | 1,243 | 6,117 |
| 8 | January 5, 2020 00:30 | January 6, 2020 02:15 | 1d 1h | 1,131 | 4,846 |
| 9 | August 31, 2020 10:00 | September 1, 2020 06:15 | 20h 15m | 1,030 | 3,528 |
| 10 | June 11, 2020 02:00 | June 12, 2020 01:45 | 23h 45m | 1,011 | 2,119 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 78 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county