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2021 Cabell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cabell County, WV went without power for an average of 72.9 hours, a total of 4.8M customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 112th 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 Cabell 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 | February 10, 2021 23:45 | March 13, 2021 03:15 | 30d 3h | 35,274 | 4.4M |
| 2 | May 9, 2021 15:45 | May 12, 2021 02:15 | 2d 10h | 5,197 | 66K |
| 3 | August 17, 2021 11:45 | August 20, 2021 20:30 | 3d 8h | 2,693 | 27K |
| 4 | June 10, 2021 05:00 | June 13, 2021 05:15 | 3d | 2,529 | 16K |
| 5 | September 21, 2021 12:15 | September 23, 2021 21:30 | 2d 9h | 2,499 | 6,551 |
| 6 | July 24, 2021 15:15 | July 28, 2021 21:15 | 4d 6h | 2,243 | 7,857 |
| 7 | August 25, 2021 10:15 | August 27, 2021 01:30 | 1d 15h | 2,134 | 8,475 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 09:45 | December 13, 2021 03:15 | 1d 17h | 1,973 | 20K |
| 9 | August 22, 2021 13:15 | August 22, 2021 16:15 | 3h | 1,945 | 4,334 |
| 10 | March 15, 2021 12:15 | March 19, 2021 20:30 | 4d 8h | 1,899 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 91 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cabell 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 ÷ 66,139 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. Cabell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabell 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/cabell-county