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2023 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 18.1 hours, a total of 431K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 463rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 1, 2023 11:00 | April 4, 2023 00:00 | 2d 13h | 8,160 | 100K |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 19:00 | August 2, 2023 01:45 | 4d 6h | 5,842 | 123K |
| 3 | July 9, 2023 09:30 | July 10, 2023 20:00 | 1d 10h | 4,865 | 3,645 |
| 4 | June 12, 2023 09:00 | June 12, 2023 21:30 | 12h 30m | 2,153 | 4,603 |
| 5 | July 7, 2023 18:15 | July 7, 2023 22:15 | 4h | 1,349 | 2,370 |
| 6 | May 2, 2023 06:30 | May 2, 2023 23:45 | 17h 15m | 1,346 | 7,291 |
| 7 | March 2, 2023 04:00 | March 6, 2023 16:45 | 4d 12h | 1,115 | 33K |
| 8 | May 4, 2023 11:00 | May 4, 2023 21:15 | 10h 15m | 1,016 | 2,370 |
| 9 | January 16, 2023 01:00 | January 16, 2023 09:45 | 8h 45m | 1,000 | 1,814 |
| 10 | April 28, 2023 21:00 | April 29, 2023 21:15 | 1d | 969 | 7,006 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 100 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Fayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of West Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette County, WV annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/west-virginia/fayette-county