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2023 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 17.7 hours, a total of 201K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 477th 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 McDowell 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 | January 29, 2023 05:15 | January 29, 2023 08:00 | 2h 45m | 2,423 | 6,663 |
| 2 | January 25, 2023 15:45 | January 26, 2023 00:45 | 9h | 1,580 | 1,274 |
| 3 | February 15, 2023 17:15 | February 15, 2023 20:45 | 3h 30m | 1,423 | 3,427 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 17:30 | April 5, 2023 14:45 | 3d 21h | 1,381 | 16K |
| 5 | May 29, 2023 00:15 | June 2, 2023 01:15 | 4d 1h | 971 | 39K |
| 6 | July 28, 2023 13:15 | August 1, 2023 00:15 | 3d 11h | 941 | 38K |
| 7 | July 20, 2023 03:30 | July 20, 2023 20:45 | 17h 15m | 865 | 4,002 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 12:15 | July 25, 2023 18:00 | 5h 45m | 791 | 1,007 |
| 9 | July 23, 2023 17:15 | July 24, 2023 01:00 | 7h 45m | 785 | 2,579 |
| 10 | October 20, 2023 12:45 | October 20, 2023 16:30 | 3h 45m | 753 | 1,936 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 42 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county