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2021 Boone County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Boone County, WV went without power for an average of 18.1 hours, a total of 237K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 474th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Boone County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 20, 2021 12:45 | May 20, 2021 18:45 | 6h | 2,216 | 3,932 |
| 2 | August 17, 2021 22:45 | August 20, 2021 20:45 | 2d 22h | 1,871 | 30K |
| 3 | July 10, 2021 18:00 | July 13, 2021 22:30 | 3d 4h | 1,789 | 13K |
| 4 | June 13, 2021 22:30 | June 16, 2021 01:00 | 2d 2h | 1,708 | 22K |
| 5 | February 28, 2021 15:00 | March 3, 2021 23:45 | 3d 8h | 1,365 | 32K |
| 6 | April 1, 2021 01:45 | April 1, 2021 04:30 | 2h 45m | 1,241 | 1,563 |
| 7 | July 21, 2021 12:45 | July 22, 2021 14:45 | 1d 2h | 1,097 | 4,754 |
| 8 | September 22, 2021 15:30 | September 23, 2021 19:00 | 1d 3h | 900 | 2,805 |
| 9 | July 31, 2021 12:45 | July 31, 2021 19:00 | 6h 15m | 875 | 1,955 |
| 10 | June 11, 2021 15:45 | June 13, 2021 17:00 | 2d 1h | 682 | 4,482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 72 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Boone County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of West Virginia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,090 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. Boone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Boone County, WV annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/west-virginia/boone-county