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2021 Ohio County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ohio County, WV went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 852nd 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 Ohio 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 28, 2021 13:15 | July 2, 2021 20:15 | 4d 7h | 6,097 | 67K |
| 2 | June 9, 2021 09:00 | June 9, 2021 12:00 | 3h | 2,690 | 7,710 |
| 3 | December 11, 2021 15:30 | December 13, 2021 20:00 | 2d 4h | 2,238 | 15K |
| 4 | September 7, 2021 13:15 | September 7, 2021 22:00 | 8h 45m | 1,445 | 6,311 |
| 5 | August 29, 2021 06:30 | August 29, 2021 11:00 | 4h 30m | 1,424 | 4,983 |
| 6 | September 21, 2021 09:45 | September 21, 2021 22:15 | 12h 30m | 1,363 | 6,193 |
| 7 | May 5, 2021 07:00 | May 6, 2021 02:30 | 19h 30m | 1,360 | 5,477 |
| 8 | June 13, 2021 17:15 | June 14, 2021 17:30 | 1d | 1,334 | 11K |
| 9 | April 1, 2021 19:00 | April 2, 2021 05:00 | 10h | 1,290 | 8,210 |
| 10 | September 22, 2021 01:15 | September 23, 2021 21:45 | 1d 20h | 965 | 4,452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 75 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Ohio 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2021 | 16.0 hrs | 2.55 | 14.4 hrs | 2.43 |
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 ÷ 32,858 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. Ohio County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ohio 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/ohio-county