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2022 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 258K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 282nd 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 McDowell 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 18:00 | June 22, 2022 22:30 | 5d 4h | 2,369 | 84K |
| 2 | July 25, 2022 21:30 | July 30, 2022 20:45 | 4d 23h | 1,642 | 39K |
| 3 | March 18, 2022 20:15 | March 20, 2022 17:15 | 1d 21h | 1,184 | 8,092 |
| 4 | June 14, 2022 02:45 | June 16, 2022 00:30 | 1d 21h | 1,083 | 17K |
| 5 | August 16, 2022 10:15 | August 16, 2022 13:45 | 3h 30m | 867 | 3,035 |
| 6 | June 23, 2022 00:30 | June 23, 2022 21:00 | 20h 30m | 627 | 6,023 |
| 7 | July 2, 2022 19:30 | July 3, 2022 20:15 | 1d | 558 | 12K |
| 8 | August 5, 2022 23:15 | August 7, 2022 22:15 | 1d 23h | 541 | 4,506 |
| 9 | February 23, 2022 08:15 | February 23, 2022 15:45 | 7h 30m | 490 | 1,952 |
| 10 | March 3, 2022 11:30 | March 3, 2022 21:00 | 9h 30m | 462 | 1,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 47 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county