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2020 Roane County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Roane County, WV went without power for an average of 23.0 hours, a total of 188K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 372nd 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 Roane 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 6, 2020 12:30 | April 6, 2020 13:30 | 1h | 3,062 | 2,301 |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 13:30 | January 13, 2020 23:00 | 2d 9h | 1,280 | 31K |
| 3 | February 4, 2020 13:00 | February 4, 2020 19:00 | 6h | 951 | 5,252 |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 14:00 | November 13, 2020 21:30 | 3d 7h | 941 | 5,855 |
| 5 | January 8, 2020 14:45 | January 8, 2020 21:30 | 6h 45m | 939 | 5,323 |
| 6 | April 21, 2020 13:30 | April 22, 2020 20:45 | 1d 7h | 931 | 4,233 |
| 7 | January 22, 2020 15:15 | January 23, 2020 02:15 | 11h | 910 | 726 |
| 8 | May 15, 2020 16:30 | May 15, 2020 18:30 | 2h | 903 | 1,614 |
| 9 | July 30, 2020 00:30 | July 30, 2020 07:45 | 7h 15m | 881 | 1,152 |
| 10 | August 25, 2020 22:00 | August 28, 2020 16:00 | 2d 18h | 856 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Roane 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 ÷ 8,158 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. Roane County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Roane 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/roane-county