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2020 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 409K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 515th 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 Raleigh 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 12, 2020 23:15 | April 18, 2020 16:00 | 5d 16h | 5,875 | 50K |
| 2 | July 31, 2020 11:45 | August 3, 2020 22:00 | 3d 10h | 3,944 | 45K |
| 3 | December 14, 2020 10:00 | December 14, 2020 19:30 | 9h 30m | 2,941 | 2,808 |
| 4 | March 17, 2020 22:00 | March 18, 2020 04:00 | 6h | 2,285 | 2,258 |
| 5 | June 10, 2020 12:15 | June 12, 2020 04:30 | 1d 16h | 2,264 | 13K |
| 6 | November 1, 2020 16:30 | November 4, 2020 01:45 | 2d 9h | 2,157 | 15K |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 03:30 | May 23, 2020 00:30 | 21h | 2,060 | 8,876 |
| 8 | March 15, 2020 04:30 | March 15, 2020 14:30 | 10h | 2,035 | 5,341 |
| 9 | March 10, 2020 21:00 | March 11, 2020 17:15 | 20h 15m | 1,890 | 7,169 |
| 10 | April 24, 2020 13:00 | April 24, 2020 16:45 | 3h 45m | 1,817 | 590 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 123 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Raleigh 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county