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2020 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 27.8 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 310th 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 Ritchie 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 3, 2020 12:30 | August 3, 2020 19:15 | 6h 45m | 6,219 | 40K |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 16:45 | March 31, 2020 02:30 | 1d 9h | 2,019 | 10K |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 06:30 | April 15, 2020 02:15 | 1d 19h | 1,417 | 12K |
| 4 | June 21, 2020 12:45 | June 21, 2020 16:30 | 3h 45m | 1,391 | 5,195 |
| 5 | April 23, 2020 19:15 | April 23, 2020 22:15 | 3h | 1,305 | 3,589 |
| 6 | March 13, 2020 04:00 | March 13, 2020 06:15 | 2h 15m | 791 | 1,374 |
| 7 | August 25, 2020 20:00 | August 28, 2020 00:00 | 2d 4h | 734 | 8,549 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 22:00 | January 14, 2020 00:15 | 2d 2h | 724 | 5,315 |
| 9 | June 11, 2020 00:45 | June 11, 2020 21:15 | 20h 30m | 696 | 4,102 |
| 10 | October 28, 2020 19:45 | October 28, 2020 23:00 | 3h 15m | 593 | 1,819 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 37 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county