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2022 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 13.0 hours, a total of 191K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 521st 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 Nicholas 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 13, 2022 23:00 | June 21, 2022 06:30 | 7d 7h | 2,259 | 48K |
| 2 | December 15, 2022 08:30 | December 16, 2022 00:00 | 15h 30m | 2,073 | 8,637 |
| 3 | July 27, 2022 08:45 | July 27, 2022 10:15 | 1h 30m | 1,982 | 2,819 |
| 4 | June 22, 2022 21:00 | June 25, 2022 02:15 | 2d 5h | 1,641 | 29K |
| 5 | August 17, 2022 06:45 | August 17, 2022 18:15 | 11h 30m | 1,550 | 8,873 |
| 6 | August 20, 2022 19:30 | August 21, 2022 02:30 | 7h | 1,546 | 2,635 |
| 7 | September 27, 2022 18:45 | September 27, 2022 22:45 | 4h | 1,403 | 4,457 |
| 8 | October 28, 2022 20:30 | October 28, 2022 20:45 | 15m | 1,283 | 321 |
| 9 | June 27, 2022 11:00 | June 27, 2022 22:30 | 11h 30m | 991 | 4,009 |
| 10 | March 7, 2022 01:15 | March 7, 2022 07:30 | 6h 15m | 778 | 1,733 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 50 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2022 | 11.8 hrs | 2.55 | 6.8 hrs | 2.05 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county