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2022 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 36.7 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 129th 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 Kanawha 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 | January 16, 2022 16:00 | January 21, 2022 22:15 | 5d 6h | 17,192 | 376K |
| 2 | June 13, 2022 08:15 | June 26, 2022 03:45 | 12d 19h | 15,530 | 809K |
| 3 | April 27, 2022 06:00 | April 28, 2022 05:15 | 23h 15m | 6,391 | 38K |
| 4 | July 8, 2022 12:15 | July 17, 2022 15:00 | 9d 2h | 5,816 | 171K |
| 5 | August 29, 2022 12:30 | September 3, 2022 01:15 | 4d 12h | 4,144 | 26K |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 08:00 | December 25, 2022 21:30 | 2d 13h | 4,141 | 79K |
| 7 | October 31, 2022 07:30 | November 2, 2022 06:00 | 1d 22h | 4,114 | 19K |
| 8 | February 2, 2022 13:30 | February 7, 2022 06:45 | 4d 17h | 4,100 | 25K |
| 9 | February 17, 2022 12:15 | February 20, 2022 01:30 | 2d 13h | 4,062 | 48K |
| 10 | May 14, 2022 19:30 | May 17, 2022 02:00 | 2d 6h | 3,864 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 164 reached 100+ customers, 54 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county