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2022 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 20.7 hours, a total of 494K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 319th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette County, 2022
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 17, 2022 17:30 | June 21, 2022 19:00 | 4d 1h | 9,402 | 143K |
| 2 | April 11, 2022 01:00 | April 11, 2022 04:00 | 3h | 5,226 | 7,457 |
| 3 | June 22, 2022 04:00 | June 25, 2022 04:00 | 3d | 4,592 | 61K |
| 4 | September 14, 2022 23:15 | September 15, 2022 02:15 | 3h | 2,742 | 5,112 |
| 5 | January 9, 2022 11:15 | January 10, 2022 04:15 | 17h | 2,724 | 18K |
| 6 | July 26, 2022 18:00 | July 29, 2022 19:30 | 3d 1h | 2,683 | 18K |
| 7 | July 5, 2022 16:45 | July 8, 2022 16:00 | 2d 23h | 2,456 | 22K |
| 8 | December 23, 2022 09:15 | December 29, 2022 12:30 | 6d 3h | 2,380 | 5,989 |
| 9 | July 21, 2022 01:00 | July 22, 2022 05:00 | 1d 4h | 1,757 | 6,811 |
| 10 | December 15, 2022 07:00 | December 17, 2022 00:45 | 1d 17h | 1,567 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 92 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Fayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 17.4 hrs | 2.67 | 10.1 hrs | 2.22 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette County, WV annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/west-virginia/fayette-county