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2021 Wayne County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wayne County, WV went without power for an average of 180.4 hours, a total of 4.1M customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 33rd 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 Wayne 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 | February 10, 2021 20:30 | April 9, 2021 18:30 | 57d 22h | 18,901 | 3.7M |
| 2 | November 12, 2021 03:15 | November 14, 2021 01:15 | 1d 22h | 3,588 | 18K |
| 3 | November 2, 2021 10:45 | November 3, 2021 18:15 | 1d 7h | 3,361 | 10K |
| 4 | October 17, 2021 12:30 | October 18, 2021 09:15 | 20h 45m | 1,923 | 24K |
| 5 | May 17, 2021 12:45 | May 18, 2021 01:15 | 12h 30m | 1,915 | 3,059 |
| 6 | May 9, 2021 19:00 | May 12, 2021 23:45 | 3d 4h | 1,860 | 42K |
| 7 | December 30, 2021 19:15 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 5h | 1,690 | 4,602 |
| 8 | September 22, 2021 13:15 | September 23, 2021 20:30 | 1d 7h | 1,562 | 10K |
| 9 | July 10, 2021 17:30 | July 16, 2021 01:45 | 5d 8h | 1,454 | 21K |
| 10 | July 7, 2021 03:15 | July 9, 2021 02:45 | 1d 23h | 1,420 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 102 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Wayne 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 |
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 ÷ 22,995 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county