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2021 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 119.5 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 57th 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 Lincoln 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 11, 2021 05:00 | March 3, 2021 23:30 | 20d 18h | 8,046 | 1.1M |
| 2 | October 5, 2021 11:15 | October 5, 2021 17:15 | 6h | 3,130 | 11K |
| 3 | May 9, 2021 17:00 | May 13, 2021 02:00 | 3d 9h | 2,834 | 40K |
| 4 | August 17, 2021 22:45 | August 24, 2021 20:15 | 6d 21h | 2,620 | 29K |
| 5 | June 10, 2021 02:15 | June 13, 2021 18:45 | 3d 16h | 2,605 | 26K |
| 6 | October 4, 2021 00:30 | October 5, 2021 00:00 | 23h 30m | 2,145 | 5,735 |
| 7 | July 16, 2021 18:15 | July 18, 2021 21:30 | 2d 3h | 1,806 | 8,105 |
| 8 | April 25, 2021 07:00 | April 25, 2021 23:00 | 16h | 1,653 | 14K |
| 9 | October 17, 2021 12:30 | October 18, 2021 09:15 | 20h 45m | 1,646 | 19K |
| 10 | June 19, 2021 04:45 | June 20, 2021 20:45 | 1d 16h | 1,408 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 77 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county