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2023 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 24.8 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 303rd 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 Kanawha 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 | July 27, 2023 03:30 | August 2, 2023 00:30 | 5d 21h | 12,305 | 322K |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 06:45 | April 8, 2023 01:15 | 7d 18h | 10,797 | 256K |
| 3 | March 2, 2023 03:45 | March 8, 2023 00:30 | 5d 20h | 8,589 | 191K |
| 4 | March 25, 2023 08:45 | March 28, 2023 20:45 | 3d 12h | 6,878 | 113K |
| 5 | July 2, 2023 16:45 | July 5, 2023 17:45 | 3d 1h | 5,192 | 32K |
| 6 | July 11, 2023 19:45 | July 27, 2023 01:00 | 15d 5h | 4,000 | 136K |
| 7 | August 25, 2023 04:45 | August 27, 2023 01:15 | 1d 20h | 2,624 | 23K |
| 8 | May 11, 2023 13:15 | May 12, 2023 09:00 | 19h 45m | 2,573 | 4,972 |
| 9 | November 30, 2023 12:15 | December 2, 2023 21:00 | 2d 8h | 2,464 | 16K |
| 10 | August 5, 2023 01:15 | August 12, 2023 05:45 | 7d 4h | 2,337 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 163 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Kanawha 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county