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2021 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 255K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 775th 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 Raleigh 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 | May 9, 2021 17:00 | May 12, 2021 18:45 | 3d 1h | 2,017 | 17K |
| 2 | January 1, 2021 11:15 | January 2, 2021 02:30 | 15h 15m | 2,001 | 1,193 |
| 3 | December 29, 2021 13:00 | December 30, 2021 21:45 | 1d 8h | 1,645 | 6,711 |
| 4 | July 10, 2021 17:30 | July 13, 2021 03:30 | 2d 10h | 1,547 | 4,757 |
| 5 | November 20, 2021 21:15 | November 21, 2021 17:15 | 20h | 1,479 | 2,626 |
| 6 | August 13, 2021 17:30 | August 15, 2021 01:45 | 1d 8h | 1,468 | 1,321 |
| 7 | August 19, 2021 22:30 | August 20, 2021 17:00 | 18h 30m | 1,449 | 3,956 |
| 8 | June 3, 2021 10:30 | June 3, 2021 13:00 | 2h 30m | 1,391 | 402 |
| 9 | January 20, 2021 06:45 | January 21, 2021 02:00 | 19h 15m | 1,379 | 6,815 |
| 10 | May 25, 2021 14:30 | May 25, 2021 22:45 | 8h 15m | 1,378 | 3,104 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 104 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 Raleigh 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county