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2021 Monroe County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Monroe County, WV went without power for an average of 31.9 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 284th 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 Monroe 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 | June 7, 2021 21:15 | June 7, 2021 22:30 | 1h 15m | 2,378 | 2,379 |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 05:00 | December 11, 2021 06:30 | 1h 30m | 2,362 | 3,543 |
| 3 | August 20, 2021 20:30 | August 21, 2021 04:00 | 7h 30m | 2,359 | 2,700 |
| 4 | January 13, 2021 14:15 | January 13, 2021 17:15 | 3h | 2,341 | 6,995 |
| 5 | July 2, 2021 02:30 | July 2, 2021 07:00 | 4h 30m | 2,233 | 9,701 |
| 6 | November 22, 2021 11:00 | November 22, 2021 23:30 | 12h 30m | 2,082 | 21K |
| 7 | February 23, 2021 00:15 | February 23, 2021 01:45 | 1h 30m | 2,033 | 1,532 |
| 8 | November 4, 2021 12:15 | November 4, 2021 14:00 | 1h 45m | 1,337 | 2,340 |
| 9 | September 2, 2021 17:00 | September 2, 2021 18:00 | 1h | 1,335 | 1,334 |
| 10 | May 4, 2021 13:00 | May 6, 2021 14:45 | 2d 1h | 1,210 | 6,890 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Monroe 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2021 | 7.2 hrs | 2.28 | 6.1 hrs | 2.16 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
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 ÷ 3,829 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county