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2021 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 30.6 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 291st 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 Ritchie 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 | August 24, 2021 23:30 | August 25, 2021 10:00 | 10h 30m | 3,166 | 32K |
| 2 | August 29, 2021 19:30 | August 30, 2021 21:00 | 1d 1h | 2,389 | 8,744 |
| 3 | February 16, 2021 01:00 | February 17, 2021 22:30 | 1d 21h | 1,850 | 28K |
| 4 | April 28, 2021 12:00 | April 28, 2021 18:00 | 6h | 1,483 | 8,757 |
| 5 | March 26, 2021 11:45 | March 26, 2021 20:30 | 8h 45m | 1,391 | 12K |
| 6 | August 18, 2021 04:30 | August 18, 2021 21:30 | 17h | 929 | 5,161 |
| 7 | June 13, 2021 19:30 | June 17, 2021 01:30 | 3d 6h | 719 | 18K |
| 8 | June 21, 2021 17:30 | June 22, 2021 23:45 | 1d 6h | 576 | 3,906 |
| 9 | December 15, 2021 13:00 | December 15, 2021 20:30 | 7h 30m | 531 | 1,655 |
| 10 | March 11, 2021 13:45 | March 11, 2021 19:00 | 5h 15m | 478 | 2,271 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 32 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county