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2023 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 41.1 hours, a total of 486K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 144th 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 Lincoln 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 | March 3, 2023 12:00 | March 7, 2023 07:15 | 3d 19h | 3,626 | 65K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 15:30 | March 27, 2023 22:15 | 2d 6h | 3,258 | 52K |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 04:00 | April 4, 2023 23:30 | 3d 19h | 2,569 | 61K |
| 4 | May 13, 2023 22:15 | May 14, 2023 07:15 | 9h | 2,406 | 7,896 |
| 5 | September 17, 2023 20:15 | September 18, 2023 16:15 | 20h | 2,360 | 4,571 |
| 6 | July 28, 2023 08:30 | July 31, 2023 20:00 | 3d 11h | 2,333 | 29K |
| 7 | July 18, 2023 01:00 | July 22, 2023 03:15 | 4d 2h | 1,967 | 64K |
| 8 | June 26, 2023 07:00 | June 26, 2023 23:15 | 16h 15m | 1,935 | 20K |
| 9 | January 22, 2023 18:15 | January 22, 2023 23:15 | 5h | 1,584 | 7,222 |
| 10 | February 26, 2023 18:00 | February 26, 2023 22:45 | 4h 45m | 1,575 | 5,734 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 82 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county