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2022 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 13.7 hours, a total of 481K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 490th 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 Putnam 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 14, 2022 00:45 | June 22, 2022 00:30 | 7d 23h | 10,210 | 168K |
| 2 | June 7, 2022 08:00 | June 7, 2022 22:30 | 14h 30m | 3,411 | 6,181 |
| 3 | June 6, 2022 01:30 | June 6, 2022 17:30 | 16h | 3,382 | 5,805 |
| 4 | July 19, 2022 02:45 | July 20, 2022 11:00 | 1d 8h | 2,796 | 8,605 |
| 5 | November 3, 2022 15:15 | November 3, 2022 22:15 | 7h | 2,647 | 2,036 |
| 6 | June 22, 2022 15:15 | June 24, 2022 18:45 | 2d 3h | 2,071 | 20K |
| 7 | February 17, 2022 21:15 | February 20, 2022 20:15 | 2d 23h | 1,881 | 21K |
| 8 | August 10, 2022 10:00 | August 12, 2022 03:45 | 1d 17h | 1,851 | 2,942 |
| 9 | August 30, 2022 00:30 | August 30, 2022 19:45 | 19h 15m | 1,712 | 660 |
| 10 | May 3, 2022 22:45 | May 4, 2022 16:45 | 18h | 1,681 | 6,304 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 87 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county