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2020 Wayne County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wayne County, WV went without power for an average of 28.4 hours, a total of 653K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 299th 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 Wayne 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 | October 26, 2020 19:45 | October 27, 2020 00:15 | 4h 30m | 5,319 | 21K |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 22:00 | April 15, 2020 20:30 | 2d 22h | 4,158 | 41K |
| 3 | August 25, 2020 22:45 | August 28, 2020 00:15 | 2d 1h | 2,928 | 53K |
| 4 | June 26, 2020 12:45 | June 26, 2020 20:00 | 7h 15m | 2,922 | 3,033 |
| 5 | June 9, 2020 01:15 | June 10, 2020 19:30 | 1d 18h | 2,889 | 5,214 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 14:15 | January 14, 2020 19:45 | 3d 5h | 2,779 | 56K |
| 7 | March 29, 2020 10:15 | March 30, 2020 23:15 | 1d 13h | 2,779 | 30K |
| 8 | April 8, 2020 13:15 | April 11, 2020 01:30 | 2d 12h | 2,746 | 38K |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 21:30 | June 12, 2020 04:15 | 1d 6h | 2,608 | 18K |
| 10 | September 12, 2020 03:30 | September 12, 2020 18:30 | 15h | 2,235 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 109 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Wayne 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 ÷ 22,995 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county