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2021 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 10.6 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 748th 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 Nicholas 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 13, 2021 18:30 | June 16, 2021 06:15 | 2d 11h | 3,038 | 59K |
| 2 | February 23, 2021 14:30 | February 23, 2021 18:00 | 3h 30m | 2,566 | 6,958 |
| 3 | June 7, 2021 22:45 | June 8, 2021 23:45 | 1d 1h | 1,956 | 8,600 |
| 4 | April 8, 2021 18:30 | April 9, 2021 02:00 | 7h 30m | 1,568 | 7,865 |
| 5 | June 18, 2021 12:15 | June 18, 2021 19:00 | 6h 45m | 1,465 | 6,918 |
| 6 | August 27, 2021 15:30 | August 27, 2021 23:30 | 8h | 1,332 | 3,905 |
| 7 | May 8, 2021 18:45 | May 11, 2021 10:30 | 2d 15h | 1,307 | 12K |
| 8 | August 25, 2021 13:00 | August 25, 2021 18:45 | 5h 45m | 906 | 2,206 |
| 9 | May 21, 2021 15:45 | May 22, 2021 00:15 | 8h 30m | 645 | 1,773 |
| 10 | August 29, 2021 21:15 | September 2, 2021 18:30 | 3d 21h | 586 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 44 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 Nicholas 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 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county