County annual report · FIPS 54085
2022 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 40.6 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 104th 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 Ritchie 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 26, 2022 12:45 | June 26, 2022 22:30 | 9h 45m | 6,189 | 13K |
| 2 | August 24, 2022 16:15 | August 24, 2022 16:45 | 30m | 3,150 | 1,575 |
| 3 | June 14, 2022 01:30 | June 20, 2022 23:00 | 6d 21h | 1,807 | 72K |
| 4 | July 23, 2022 14:30 | July 26, 2022 00:30 | 2d 10h | 1,441 | 22K |
| 5 | July 21, 2022 01:00 | July 21, 2022 22:30 | 21h 30m | 1,376 | 10K |
| 6 | July 31, 2022 20:30 | July 31, 2022 23:30 | 3h | 1,300 | 3,900 |
| 7 | June 9, 2022 02:00 | June 10, 2022 19:30 | 1d 17h | 852 | 5,949 |
| 8 | February 17, 2022 22:30 | February 20, 2022 02:00 | 2d 3h | 643 | 2,228 |
| 9 | April 26, 2022 07:00 | April 26, 2022 15:30 | 8h 30m | 633 | 1,894 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 09:45 | December 25, 2022 09:30 | 1d 23h | 613 | 5,834 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 43 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county